{"product_id":"the-epic-of-juan-latino","title":"The Epic of Juan Latino","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\n\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\n\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\n","brand":"By Elizabeth R. Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575380115638,"sku":"9781442637528","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442637528_4751f7cc-522c-40e1-a342-f765a0ff206c.jpg?v=1727458190","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-epic-of-juan-latino","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}