Petrarch's Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation, and Empire

Contributor(s): Agbamu, Samuel (Author), Manuwald, Gesine (Editor), Harrison, Stephen (Editor), Barton, William M (Editor), Xinyue, Bobby (Editor)

ISBN: 9781350330795

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Hardcover

$115.00

Pub Date: May 14, 2026

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.56" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 1.08 lbs) 224 pages

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Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch's 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic War, the Africa, mapping out its place in the development of European, early modern discourses of 'race', empire, and nation

Brief description: Samuel Agbamu is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK.