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Book SynopsisThe epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the period were quite cognizant of their ventures into uncharted territory, and that awareness informed their literary journeys.
The War Trumpet features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as La Araucana, Os Lusíadas, Carlo famoso, El Bernardo, Arauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia, and Felicissima Victoria, among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the prac
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The Age of Iberian Epic Emiro Martinez-Osorio Part One: Of Gods and Textual Models 1. Design Ingeniously Corrected: Corte-Real, Os Lusíadas, and the Gods in the Felicissima Helio J.S. Alves 2. Pagan Nature and the Naturalization of Empire in the New World Epyllions of Bento Teixeira and Silvestre de Balboa Luis Rodriguez Rincon 3. Lyric as Temptation in Alonso de Ercilla and Torquato Tasso Mercedes Blanco Part Two: The Poet as Hero 4. The Many Voices of the Poet: Narrative Polyphony in Os Lusíadas Matthew Da Mota 5. Eyewitness, Hero, and Poet: Alonso de Ercilla in the Three Parts of La Araucana Aude Plagnard Part Three: Gendered Epics 6. The Voice and the Veil: Pearls, Villancicos, and Dissent in Juan de Castellanos’ Elegy 14 Emiro Martinez-Osorio 7. Domestic Bliss and Strife: Fresia and Caupolicán in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco Domado Nicole Delia Legnani Part Four: New Historiographic and Cartographic Boundaries 8. Christopher Columbus and the Anonymous Pilot in Carlo famoso by Luis Zapata de Chaves Jason McCloskey 9. Cartography in Bernardo de Balbuena’s El Bernardo o victoria de Roncesvalles Martin Zulaica Lopez Afterword Mercedes Blanco Contributors Index
