by jac3 | Apr 7, 2018
New Spain (New Mexico) First published: 1610 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Historia de la Nueva México When Gaspar Perez de Villagrá began writing his Historia de la Nueva México (1610), a Spanish epic about Don Juan de Oñate’s colonial expedition through New Mexico, he...
by jac3 | Apr 4, 2018
Italy / France 1623 Giambattista Marino, Adone (Adonis) Giambattista Marino’s Adone can be characterized as a mythical poem. The well-known love story of Venus and Adonis, featured in Cantos III, VIII, XV, XVII, and XVIII of this poem of 20 cantos, is compounded by...
by jac3 | Apr 4, 2018
Italy 1623 Margherita Sarrocchi, La Scanderbeide (Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus) The Scanderbeide is an epic poem of twenty-three cantos written in Italian by Margherita Sarrocchi, first published in a shorter, clearly...
by jac3 | Mar 25, 2018
China 1633 Yuan Yuling, The Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao from Forgotten Tales of the Sui (Sui shi yiwen 隋史遺文) The translated Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao (2025) constitutes the bulk of the narrative in a seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Yuan...
by jac3 | Mar 19, 2018
England Published: 1667 in 10 books, 1674 in 12 books John Milton Paradise Lost Paradise Lost emerged from the crucible of England’s Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration, as well as the author’s life. John Milton (1608–74) had been...
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