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The 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 practice of poetic imitation, the discipline of cartography, or the reception of Petrarchism in the newly established viceroyalties of the New World. Fostering a greater appreciation of the intersection between poetry, war, and exploration, The War Trumpet sheds light on the transformative changes that took place during the period of Iberian expansion.
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
