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Allegory in Renaissance literature

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to 'Triamond' in his 1734 edition). The three sons correspond to the three worlds, born of love. Cambell's battle with the three sons is an allegory of "man's battle with the three worlds to find his place in the universe, to establish harmony in God's creation, and ultimately to achieve salvation".
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Furthermore, since any triad may be an analogue of another, the three brothers could also be an allegory of the three worlds of man's soul: the vegetative, the sensitive, and the angelic". Spenser's (multi-layered) allegory is similarly worked out through all six books.
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Renaissance allegories could be continuous and systematic, or intermittent and occasional. Perhaps the most famous example of a thorough and continuous allegorical work from the Renaissance is the six books of
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Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton
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discusses the interrelations between these three worlds in the introduction to his
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also wrote continuous allegory, as opposed to the intermittent allegory of an
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has three sons: Priamond (from one), Diamond (from two), and Telamond (from
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By the 16th century, allegory was firmly linked to what is known as the
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The early modern theory of allegory is discussed in
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Index

Allegory
Renaissance literature
allegory in the Middle Ages
courtly love
Sir John Harington
Apology for Poetry
Ariosto
Orlando furioso
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene
Agape
Jortin
Torquato Tasso
Ariosto
Elizabethan world picture
Ptolemy
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
sublunary world
celestial world
supercelestial world
Godhead
Pico della Mirandola
Heptaplus
Pierre de la Primaudaye
Philip Sidney
John Milton
Literature portal
Courtly literature
Dream vision
Roman de la Rose

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