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

Author
Wright, Elizabeth [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (287 p.)

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Series
Toronto Iberic [More in this series]
Summary note
"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's last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his distinguished career as a schoolmaster at the University of Granada. When intensifying racial discrimination and the chaos of the Morisco Revolt threatened Latino's hard-won status, he set out to secure his position by publishing an epic poem in Latin verse, the Austrias Carmen, that would demonstrate his mastery of Europe's international literary language and celebrate his own African heritage. Through Latino's remarkable, hitherto untold story, Wright illuminates the racial and religious tensions of sixteenth-century Spain and the position of black Africans within Spain's nascent empire and within the emerging African diaspora."-- Provided by publisher
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
Language note
In English.
Contents
  • 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 Phillip II, "On the Birth of Untroubled Times"
  • Appendix 2 Chronology.
ISBN
  • 1-4426-2555-4
  • 1-4426-2554-6
OCLC
953834733
Doi
  • 10.3138/9781442625549
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