The epic discourse as an expression of “Homesickness” for a mediterranean world: Jerónimo Corte-Real and the Battle of Lepanto

Avelar, Ana  Paula

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Avelar, Ana Paula

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This essay examines how a specific epic discourse, Jerónimo Corte Real’s Felicissima victoria concedida del cielo al senor don Iuan d’Austria, en el golfo de Lepanto de la poderosa armada Othomana. En el anno de nuestra salvacion de 1572 (1578), embraces the “homesickness” for a “Mediterranean World”, where the unchallenged power of Christianity would prevail. We follow the Braudelian perspective of how “the Inland Sea” had become another place for Philip II’s Spain, with the Atlantic Ocean acquiring the status of “centre of the Earth”, in order to raise the question of whether the Battle of Lepanto was embodied as a sign of a nostalgic Mediterranean World. Anchored in concepts such as “homesickness”, nostalgia, and memory, we analyze the shaping of an epic discourse, through one military action: Lepanto’s battle. In Corte-Real’s poetic account of a historical event, the ideas and emotions built upon the notion of belonging, hospitality and loss are also revealed.