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The Epic of Florida

Words + maps + images about epic poems of Florida, 1571 to 1600.

Introduction: Florida and the epic genre.

Ercilla Zúñiga, La Araucana. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. El Inca Garcilaso de La Vega, La Florida. Mapping Florida.

One. Juan de Castellanos, Ponce de Leon, the Fountain of Youth.

Juan de Castellanos, Elegy to Ponce de Leon. Ponce in Spanish histories. The fountain of youth. Pietro Martire's de Anghiera's De Orbe Novo. Peter Martyr, Decades.

Juan de Castellanos, and others

Primera parte, de las Elegias de varones illustres de Indias.

1589

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

La historia general delas Indias.

1535

Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, and others

Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas i Tierra ...

1601-1615, v.1,2

Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, and others

The decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, conteynyng the nauigations...

1555

Two. Bartolomé de Flores, French Florida, St. Augustine

Bartolomé de Flores. La Floride française. Theodor de Bry. Cartographic revisions. The founding of St. Augustine.

Three. Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo and the culture of conversion.

Francisco Pareja, Confessionario. Theodor de Bry, Satouriwa and Jean Ribault, Christoph Krieger, Timucua woodblocks.

Project Creator(s)

  • Thomas Hallock
  • The John Carter Brown Library