Emiro Martínez-Osorio is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.Mercedes Blanco is a professor of Spanish Golden Age literature at Sorbonne University.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Age of Iberian EpicEmiro Martinez-OsorioPart One: Of Gods and Textual Models1. Design Ingeniously Corrected: Corte-Real, Os Lusíadas, and the Gods in the FelicissimaHelio J.S. Alves2. Pagan Nature and the Naturalization of Empire in the New World Epyllions of Bento Teixeira and Silvestre de BalboaLuis Rodriguez Rincon3. Lyric as Temptation in Alonso de Ercilla and Torquato TassoMercedes BlancoPart Two: The Poet as Hero4. The Many Voices of the Poet: Narrative Polyphony in Os Lusíadas Matthew Da Mota5. Eyewitness, Hero, and Poet: Alonso de Ercilla in the Three Parts of La AraucanaAude PlagnardPart Three: Gendered Epics6. The Voice and the Veil: Pearls, Villancicos, and Dissent in Juan de Castellanos’ Elegy 14Emiro Martinez-Osorio7. Domestic Bliss and Strife: Fresia and Caupolicán in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco DomadoNicole Delia LegnaniPart Four: New Historiographic and Cartographic Boundaries8. Christopher Columbus and the Anonymous Pilot in Carlo famoso by Luis Zapata de ChavesJason McCloskey 9. Cartography in Bernardo de Balbuena’s El Bernardo o victoria de RoncesvallesMartin Zulaica LopezAfterwordMercedes BlancoContributors Index

“The War Trumpet: Iberian Epic Poetry stands as an exemplary model of how to revisit the epic tradition with critical rigour and renewed scope.”