TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Elizabeth R.
TI  - The epic of Juan Latino: dilemmas of race and religion in Renaissance Spain 
T2  - Toronto Iberic
SN  - 9781442625549
AV  - PA8540.L615 Z86 2016
U1  - 871/.04 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Latino, Juan,
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Naval battles in literature
KW  - Poets, Black
KW  - Spain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Blacks
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - POETRY
KW  - Ancient, Classical & Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religion
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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."--
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