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Romances, History and criticism, Commerce, History, In literature, Huon de Bordeaux, Romance literature, history and criticism, Trade routes, Asia, commerce, Europe, in literature, Polo, marco, 1254-1323?, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Boiardo, matteo maria, 1440 or 1441-1494, Camoes, luiz de, 1524?-1580, Spenser, edmund, 1552?-1599, Milton, john, 1608-1674, paradise lost, Romances, history and criticism, Commerce, history, Asia, historyPeople
Marco Polo (1254-1323?), Geoffrey Chaucer (-1400), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440 or 1441-1494), Luís de Camões (1524?-1580), Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), John Milton (1608-1674)Places
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Asian trade and heroic narrative from Marco Polo to Milton
Part 1. The Mongols
Marco Polo and the marvelous real
A paradise for killers: Marco Polo and the garden of the assassins
The squire's tale: romance as mask
Morgana and Manodante: Boiardo and the aristocratic response to mercantilism
Part 2. The portuguese
Huon at the castle of Adamant
First encounter: the Christian-Hindu confusion when the Portuguese reached India
Camões and the discovery of India: the negative side
Surviving enchantment: Vasco da Gama's first voyage in Os lusíadas: the interplay between experience and classical models
Part 3. The English
Spenser, Marlowe, and the English search for Asian silk
The audience of The Faerie Queene
Waning of a dream: a brief history of Moscovia and Paradise lost
A wood in the desert
Appendix 1: The devaluation of the squire and his tale
Appendix 2: Henry's search for spices
Appendix 3: Vergil in Camões.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index.
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