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The Epic of Juan Latino - Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain (Hardcover)
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The Epic of Juan Latino - Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain (Hardcover)
Series: Toronto Iberic
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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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