Introduction: A Lost Portrait and a Forgotten Name

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Text and Terminology xiii
5. Illustrations xv
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. THE EPIC OF JUAN LATINO 1
8. Introduction: A Lost Portrait and a Forgotten Name 3
9. Part One: From Slave to Freedman in Granada
10. 1. Latin Lessons amid the Remnants of Al-Andalus 21
11. 2. Civil War, Shattered Convivencia 62
12. Part Two: The Epic of Lepanto
13. 3. A Black Poet and a Habsburg Phoenix 87
14. 4. Christians and Muslims on the Battle Lines 113
15. 5. The Costs of Modern Warfare 137
16. Conclusion: Song of the Black Swan 166
17. Epilogue: Juan Latino in the Harlem Renaissance 181
18. Appendix 1: Elegy for Philip II, “On the Birth of Untroubled Times” (De natali serenissimi ad Catholicum et Invictissimum Regem Philippum Elegia) 185
19. Appendix 2: Chronology 191
20. Notes 195
21. Bibliography 231
22. Index 253