Italy Completed in 1575, first published in 1581. Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata Tasso’s heroic poem in twenty ottava rima cantos fictionalizes the vicissitudes of several leading historical figures from the First Crusade as it...
England Published: 1590; 1596 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Spenser’s The Faerie Queene can be studied, in its local Elizabethan context, as an exemplar of Philip Sidney’s claim that the purpose of poesy is to “teach and delight” and, in its more global...
Peru 1596 Pedro de Oña, Arauco domado (Tamed Arauco) Arauco domado (or Tamed Arauco, published in Lima in 1596) is a long epic poem by Pedro de Oña and his first publication at age 26. It includes 19 chants. Oña also wrote two other major poems: Ignacio de Cantabria...
Spain Part one published in 1605; part two published in 1615. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quijote de la Mancha Please contact me (jac@columbia.edu) if you are interested in writing an introduction to this work. Author Name Works Cited If applicable. ...
Cuba 1608 Silvestre de Balboa, Espejo de paciencia (Mirror of Patience) Espejo de paciencia [Mirror of Patience] is an epic poem written by Silvestre de Balboa (Gran Canaria, 1563–Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, c. 1649) in 1608 to commemorate an historical event of four...
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