TY - BOOK ID - 78341303 TI - The Epic of Juan Latino : Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain PY - 2018 SN - 1442625546 9781442625549 9781442637528 1442637528 1442625554 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Poets, Black KW - Race discrimination KW - Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Bias, Racial KW - Discrimination, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Racial bias KW - Racial discrimination KW - Discrimination KW - Black poets KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - Latino, Juan, KW - Latinus, Ioannes, KW - Latinus, Joannes, KW - History and criticism KW - 1500-1599 KW - Spain. KW - Espagne KW - Espainiako Erresuma KW - España KW - Espanha KW - Espanja KW - Espanya KW - Estado Español KW - Hispania KW - Hiszpania KW - Isupania KW - Kingdom of Spain KW - Regne d'Espanya KW - Reiaume d'Espanha KW - Reino de España KW - Reino d'Espanya KW - Reinu d'España KW - Sefarad KW - Sepharad KW - Shpanie KW - Shpanye KW - Spanien KW - Spanish State KW - Supein UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78341303 AB - "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."-- ER -