The books under review share an interest in the tangled history of the Euro pean discovery,
conquest, and, to use Montaigne's (" Des cannibales") sardonic metaphor," digestion" of the …

Portuguese colonizers sought to enact, master, and finally possess the contents of a
longstanding aspiration of the European medieval cultural imagination. Petrarch's profane …

In Marvelous Possessions Stephen Greenblatt's subject is what he terms the imagination at
work or practical imagination. Unlike the imagination at play, which is the common object of …

London: Macmillan Press, 1999. 288 pp. np ISBN: 0-312-22038-3. Wonder and Science has
as its focus the marketing and management of the sense of marvel that accompanied and …

john Beverley at I would like to offer here is a critique of Stephen Greenatt's new book,
published in anticipation of the Colombian uincentennial, Marvelous Possessions: The …

This book was first published in Spanish a little over a decade ago as Am-'r en Europa
(Buenos Aires, 1975); and it is still worth translating into Engl since it is addressed …

Lestringant's purpose is to explicate Thevet's geographical works and to evaluate the
development, and eventual decline, of cosmography in sixteenth-century Europe. In so …

This dissertation is a comparative study of travel narratives produced by Europeans about
the Americas during the second half of the sixteenth century. It treats three texts: Michel de …

The book opens with Frank J. Warnke's exposition of the my meditative elements in the lyrics
of three modem poets: Pau Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens. The second article b …

IN all states whose wealth is immediately derived from mercantile sources, the greatest care
should be taken to preserve their commerce from every species of depredation or violence …