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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Portugal and the Learned Community of Europe Introduction | |
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| Heralds of Empire | |
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| Portuguese Students and Diplomats Abroad | |
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| Dami�o de G�is, Publicist of Empire | |
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| Foreigners, Returnees, and Jesuits in Portugal | |
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| Books, Libraries, and Reading | |
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| Portugal and Spain | |
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| Italy | |
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| The Germanies | |
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| The Low Countries, France, and England | |
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| Appendix: Books on Asia in Sixty Sixteenth-Century Collections | |
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| The National Literatures Introduction | |
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| The Inherited Themes | |
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| Antiquity | |
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| The Romance of Alexander | |
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| The Westward Migration of Story | |
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| Renaissance Forms and Fashions | |
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| Portuguese Literature | |
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| Glory and Disillusionment | |
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| Maritime Tragedies and Siege Triumphs | |
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| The Chronicle-Narrative | |
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| The Epic Synthesis | |
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| Spanish Literature | |
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| Curiousity, Hope, and Frustration | |
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| Universal Empire in Romance and Poetry | |
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| New Historical Genres | |
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| Italian Literature | |
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| Realism in Romantic Poetry | |
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| Popular and Didactic Literature | |
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| History and Cosmography | |
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| The Political Thought of Giovanni Botero | |
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| French Literature | |
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| The Challenge of Asia | |
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| The "New World" of the Poets | |
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| Cultural Relativism in Popular and Didactic Prose | |
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| From Cosmography to Universal History | |
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| The Germanic Literatures | |
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| German Literature | |
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| First Reactions | |
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| Protestants versus Catholics | |
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| Netherlandish Literature | |
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| English Literature | |
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| From Humanism to Cosmography | |
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| The Art of Poesy | |
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| Drama and Satire Book Three | |
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| The Scholarly Disciplines Introduction | |
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| Technology and the Natural Sciences | |
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| Technology and Engineering | |
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| Mathematics and Astronomy | |
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| Nautics and Navigation | |
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| Alchemy and Chemistry | |
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| Botany | |
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| Cartography and Geography | |
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| The Eclipse of Ptolemy | |
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| The New Cartography | |
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| Atlases, Patronage, and Geographical Learning | |
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| Language and Linguistics | |
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| Sources | |
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| Renaissance Linguistic Ideas | |
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| Classification and Comparison | |
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| Harmony and Universality | |
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| Rebabelization | |
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| Appendix: Words of Asiatic Origin Introduced into the European Vocabulary | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Chapter Bibliographies | |
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| Index | |