Readings

Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, nos. 24, 29, 36, 47, 73.

Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, trans. Harold V. Livermore. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966, book 1, chs. 1-4 (pp. 9-16); book 2, chs. 4-5 (pp. 75-83); book 3, chs. 10-11 (pp. 154-59)

Roland Greene, "Petrarchism among the Discourses of Imperialism," in America in European Consciousness 1493-1750, ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 19p5, pp. 130-65.

Sabine MacCormack, Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 332-49.

I. Philip Sidney

SUMMARY

A. Sidney's biography in trans-Atlantic context

B. Received versus "colonial" readings of Astrophil and Stella nos. 24, 29, 36, 47, 73

C. Some keywords: "conquest," "slave," "sugar"

II. The Inca Garcilaso

A. Garcilaso's biography in trans-Atlantic context

B. The discovery of the new world and Peru according to Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries

C. The serial conquests of Book Three

D. "Huaca"

III. Sidney and Garcilaso in comparative contexts

A. Their common world as background

B. How do we read them together? How do they illuminate each other?