Poetics of Empire in the Indies: Prophecy and Imitation in la Araucana and Os Lus’adas

Aeneas Aeneid Africa aleph Alexandreis allusion Araucana Araucanian Ariosto Bellona Brocense Camoens Camoens's canto Castile Castilian century Chapter colonial commentary context cosmic icon dissimulation eclectic edition Egloga ekphrastic empire emulation epic episode Ercilla Ercilla's imitation Erictho Faria e Sousa Fernán Núñez Fitón's cave Garcilaso globe globo Historia Iberian imitatio imitative practice imperial imperialist Juan de Mena Kerkhof L'Arioste La Araucana Laberinto de Fortuna Latin Lepanto Lerner Libro de Alexandre Lida de Malkiel literary locus López de Gómara Lucan Lusíadas mantic mapamundi Medea medieval Medina Meroë Metamorphoses mirror Morínigo mundo necromancy necromantic nekuia Neoplatonic Nonetheless Nucio Orlando furioso Ovid Ovid's passage Petrarch Pharsalia Pigman Pliny poem poet poet's poetic Portuguese prestigious prophecy prophetic Proteus reader reference Renaissance rendition rivalry Saint Quentin Sannazaro Severo sixteenth sixteenth-century Spanish sphere stanzas storm subtext Tethys Tethys's tion topos tradition translation Urrea's verses Vida Virgil Virgilian vision witch