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The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle
of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international
events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work
of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical
backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often modeled on Vergil and
other Roman poets, in response to the news of the battle, the
largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Among the
poems included is the two-book Austrias Carmen "by the remarkable
Juan Latino, a black African former slave who became a professor of
Latin in Granada. The poems, including two previously unpublished,
are here translated into English for the first time, along with
fresh editions of the Latin texts.
Don BartolomE de Alva was a mestizo who rose within New Spain's
ecclesiastical hierarchy when people of indigenous heritage were
routinely excluded from the priesthood. In 1640 and 1641 he
translated several theatrical pieces from Spanish into Nahuatl, yet
this prodigious accomplishment remained virtually unknown for
centuries.Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3 presents for the first time in
English the complete dramatic works of Alva, the only known plays
from Spain's Golden Age adapted into the lively world of
Nahuatl-language theater. Alva's translations-"The Great Theater of
the World," "The Animal Prophet and the Fortunate Patricide," "The
Mother of the Best," and a farcical intermezzo-represent ambitious
attempts to add complex, Baroque dramatic pieces by such literary
giants as Lope de Vega and Pedro CalderOn de la Barca to the
repertory of Nahuatl theater, otherwise dominated by sober one-act
religious plays grounded in medieval tradition. The Spanish sources
and Alva's Nahuatl, set on facing pages with their English
translations, show how Alva "Mexicanized" the plays by
incorporating Nahuatl linguistic conventions and referencing local
symbolism and social life. In their introductory essays, the
editors offer contextual and interpretive information that provides
an entrEe into this rich material. As the only known adaptations of
these theatrical works into a Native American language, these plays
stand as fine literature in their own right.
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