Estudio y edicion anotada de "La Florida" de Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo, O.F.M. (Volumes I-III).
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Title
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Estudio y edicion anotada de "La Florida" de Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo, O.F.M. (Volumes I-III).
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Identifier
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AAI9325153
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identifier
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9325153
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Creator
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Sununu, Alexandra Elizabeth.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Raquel Chang-Rodriguez
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Date
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1993
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance | History, United States
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Abstract
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This dissertation is a critical edition of the first epic poem of what is now the United States, La Florida. This poem was written by one of the early Spanish missionaries to the New World, the Franciscan friar, Padre Alonso Gregorio Escobedo, who is virtually unknown in modern literary annals. The poem, probably written between 1598 and 1603, is an extraordinarily long manuscript which is housed in the National Library of Madrid. It is manuscript #187 and comprises 449 folios, both sides.;Although various verses of the poem have appeared in occasional articles by other Franciscans, the entire poem has never been published. The manuscript consisting of 37 cantos and 21,000 lines was written in old Spanish in octavos reales, verses with eight lines, each line containing eleven syllables. In this edition, the poem has been transcribed into modern Spanish with extensive annotation.;The dissertation is divided into three volumes. The first volume contains the introduction, the prologue and the first ten cantos describing the life and miracles of San Diego de Alcala, a Franciscan saint who was canonized in 1588.;The second volume, the most interesting and historical of the three, is a veritable history of the lands which Escobedo visited and tried to convert to Catholicism. He describes the previous events such as the struggle between the French and the Spanish, including the death of Jean Ribault by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, the ransacking and burning of Saint Augustine by Sir Francis Drake, the Guale Rebellion of 1597 in Georgia and the death and killing of five of his fellow Franciscan priests as a result of that rebellion. (It should be noted that the "Florida" of Escobedo's century included the present day states of South Carolina and Georgia).;This volume is also quite rich in its 'cuadro de costumbres' of the Timucuan Indians, describing everything pertinent to their culture: sexual mores, religious customs, food preparation and preservation, hunting customs, sporting events, flora and fauna, and their famous whale hunts among other accounts.;The third volume contains the last seven cantos which center around the "platicas" or sermons which Escobedo gave to the Indians. The historical significance of these sermons is classic in that they reflect the focus of the early missionaries' tactics for conversion.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
