{"product_id":"9781442625556","title":"The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Epic of Juan Latino\u003c\/em\u003e, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, \u003cem\u003eAustrias Carmen\u003c\/em\u003e (The Song of John of Austria).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiecing 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 \u003cem\u003eAustrias Carmen\u003c\/em\u003e, that would demonstrate his mastery of Europe’s international literary language and celebrate his own African heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140180525296,"sku":"9781442625556","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442625556_p0.jpg?v=1763809900","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442625556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}