Empire's companion : Virgilian epics from colonial Iberoamerica /

"A study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South and Central America. Accompanying Iberian colonizers to the Americas, Virgil's Aeneid inspired generations of colonial elites to write their own epic poems in Latin-priming imaginations for S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valdivieso, Erika (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Pietas on the Shores of Brazil
  • 2. Epic from the Edge of the Map
  • 3. Parading the Mexica Emperors
  • 4. America's Antiquities.