Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Lost Portrait and a Forgotten Name
  • Part One From Slave to Freedman in Granada. 1 Latin Lessons amid the Remnants of Al-Andalus
  • 2 Civil War, Shattered Convivencia
  • Part Two The Epic of Lepanto. 3 A Black Poet and a Habsburg Phoenix
  • 4 Christians and Muslims on the Battle Lines
  • 5 The Costs of Modern Warfare
  • Conclusion: Song of the Black Swan
  • Epilogue: Juan Latino in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Appendix 1 Elegy for Phillip II, "On the Birth of Untroubled Times"
  • Appendix 2 Chronology.