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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Elizabeth, Author.

Series:

Toronto Iberic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latino, Juan, 1518?-.

Latino, Juan.

Poets, Black--Spain--Biography.

Poets, Black.

Race discrimination--Spain--History--16th century.

Race discrimination.

Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-2555-4

1-4426-2554-6

OCLC:

953834733