""The author has written an extraordinary history of the meanings and applications of a single word--- pieta--- and its cultural and Roman antiquity, early Christian Europe, the European middle ages, and sixteenth- and seventeenth -century Italy, France, and England... This study is clearly a major contribution to comparative literature."" --- Paul J. Korshin, University of Pennsylvania ""This is a remarkably good book. Garrison has identified an enormous topic never previously studied in a coherent way: the tradition of ideas and terms for pietas in the pre-modern West... I found his discussions not only of Renaissance commentary and mythography but also of the medieval Investiture controversy original, lucid, and compelling."" ---Anthony Grafton, Princeton University For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts to explain all that...

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