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"""In Augustine's Virgilian Retreat Joseph Pucci proposes that the dialogues at Cassiciacum offer evidence of a developing methodology that serves to accommodate ancient poetry to the philosophy of scripture and enable deep engagement with the pre-Christian poet. Pucci sees this approach as an act of recuperation, a trope akin to irony and capable of negotiating ""the rift between truth and falsehood."" To recuperate the humanistic background that underlies Augustine's pre-Confessions writing is to open the historical and rhetorical depth of that oeuvre - and the depth of Christian writing in general - to reassessment. Pucci's work is a major contribution to research in the field that will pave the way for reinterpretation not only of Augustine's works but, perhaps more significantly, of later works that draw on Augustine, even as it will contribute to the burgeoning literature on classical reception."" --Sarah Spence, University of Georgia"

In Augustine's Virgilian Retreat Joseph Pucci proposes that the dialogues at Cassiciacum offer evidence of a developing methodology that serves to accommodate ancient poetry to the philosophy of scripture and enable deep engagement with the pre-Christian poet. Pucci sees this approach as an act of recuperation, a trope akin to irony and capable of negotiating the rift between truth and falsehood. To recuperate the humanistic background that underlies Augustine's pre- Confessions writing is to open the historical and rhetorical depth of that oeuvre - and the depth of Christian writing in general - to reassessment. Pucci's work is a major contribution to research in the field that will pave the way for reinterpretation not only of Augustine's works but, perhaps more significantly, of later works that draw on Augustine, even as it will contribute to the burgeoning literature on classical reception. --Sarah Spence, University of Georgia

""In Augustine's Virgilian Retreat Joseph Pucci proposes that the dialogues at Cassiciacum offer evidence of a developing methodology that serves to accommodate ancient poetry to the philosophy of scripture and enable deep engagement with the pre-Christian poet. Pucci sees this approach as an act of recuperation, a trope akin to irony and capable of negotiating ""the rift between truth and falsehood."" To recuperate the humanistic background that underlies Augustine's pre-Confessions writing is to open the historical and rhetorical depth of that oeuvre - and the depth of Christian writing in general - to reassessment. Pucci's work is a major contribution to research in the field that will pave the way for reinterpretation not only of Augustine's works but, perhaps more significantly, of later works that draw on Augustine, even as it will contribute to the burgeoning literature on classical reception."" --Sarah Spence, University of Georgia

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Joseph Pucci is an Associate Professor of Classics, with appointments also in the Program in Medieval Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He holds an undergraduate degree from John Carroll University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. His main interests are in late antiquity, later and medieval Latin, and reception studies. He prepared the second edition of K.P. Harrington's Medieval Latin (1997) and is the author of The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (1998) as well as Poems to Friends (2010), a translation and commentary on the personal poetry of Venantius Fortunatus. He is also the author of a forthcoming companion volume to Augustine's Virgilian Retreat entitled Recuperating Virgil: Reading the Auctores in Augustine's ""Confessions"", and is currently working on a translation, with commentary, of Alcuin's poems and letters.

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