Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: The Age of Iberian Epic 1
6. PART ONE: Of Gods and Textual Models
7. 1 Design Ingeniously Corrected: Corte-Real, Os Lusíadas, and the Gods in the Felicissima 25
8. 2 Pagan Nature and the Naturalization of Empire in the New World Epyllions of Bento Teixeira and Silvestre de Balboa1 59
9. 3 Lyric as Temptation in Alonso de Ercilla and Torquato Tasso 96
10. PART TWO: The Poet as Hero
11. 4 The Many Voices of the Poet: Narrative Polyphony in Os Lusíadas 131
12. 5 Eyewitness, Hero, and Poet: Alonso de Ercilla in the Three Parts of La Araucana 165
13. PART THREE: Gendered Epics
14. 6 The Voice and the Veil: Pearls, Villancicos, and Dissent in Juan de Castellanos’s “Elegy 14” 207
15. 7 Domestic Bliss and Strife: Fresia and Caupolicán in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado 243
16. PART FOUR: New Historiographic and Cartographic Boundaries
17. 8 “Así el cielo lo quiso”: Christopher Columbus and the Anonymous Pilot in Carlo famoso by Luis Zapata de Chaves 279
18. 9 Cartography in Bernardo de Balbuena’s El Bernardo o victoria de Roncesvalles 312
19. Afterword 355
20. Contributors 371
21. Index 375