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The Epic of Juan Latino : Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain / Elizabeth Wright.

In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino's life in Granada, Iberia&...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Wright, Elizabeth (Author)
Corporate Author: University of Toronto. Press
Other title:De Gruyter University Press Pilot.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Series:Toronto Iberic.
Subjects:
Black people > Spain > History > 16th century.
Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) > History and criticism.
Naval battles in literature.
Poets, Black > Spain > Biography.
Black people.
Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Poets, Black.
Spain.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Text and Terminology
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • THE EPIC OF JUAN LATINO
  • Introduction: A Lost Portrait and a Forgotten Name
  • Part One: From Slave to Freedman in Granada
  • 1. Latin Lessons amid the Remnants of Al-Andalus
  • 2. Civil War, Shattered Convivencia
  • Part Two: The Epic of Lepanto
  • 3. A Black Poet and a Habsburg Phoenix
  • 4. Christians and Muslims on the Battle Lines
  • 5. The Costs of Modern Warfare
  • Conclusion: Song of the Black Swan
  • Epilogue: Juan Latino in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Appendix 1: Elegy for Philip II, "On the Birth of Untroubled Times" (De natali serenissimi ad Catholicum et Invictissimum Regem Philippum Elegia)
  • Appendix 2: Chronology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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