A sonnet from carthage: garcilaso de la vega and the new poetry of sixteenth-century europe

Taking As His Touchstone A Wonderfully Suggestive Sonnet That Garcilasco De La Vega Wrote In 1535 From The Neighborhood Of Ruined Carthage In North Africa, Richard Helgerson Examines How The Companionship Of Language And Empire Played Itself Out More Generally In The New Poetry Of Sixteenth-century Europe.–jacket. What They Expected (… And What They Got) — Las Armas Y El Furor De Marte = Arms And The Fury Of Mars — El Arte Italïano = Italian Art — Aquí = Here — Me Deshago = I Am Undone — Boscán = Boscán — Epilogue: Poetry Of The New — Epístola A Boscán = Epistle To Boscán — Soneto A Mario = Sonnet To Mario — Elegía A Boscá = Elegy To Boscán — Elegía Al Duque D’alva = Elegy To The Duke Of Alba — Ode Ad Genesium Speulvedam = Ode To Ginés De Sepúlveda. Richard Helgerson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [113]-117).