The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate: Volume 489 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

Lund, Christopher C

ISBN 10: 0866985441 / ISBN 13: 9780866985444

Published by State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2016

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2016. hardcover. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate: Volume 489 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
• Publisher: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0866985441
• ISBN 13: 9780866985444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim is an English translation of a salvation allegory written in the hinterland of Brazil in 1682 by the Jesuit Father Alexandre de Gusmão. Generally, it served the pedagogical purposes of his order, being translated twice into Spanish (1696 and 1815), and specifically for use in his mission boarding school in Belém da Cachoeira. Its narrative follows the evolution of the two protagonists, Predestined and Reprobate, as they travel from Egypt toward the New Jerusalem. It examines the vicissitudes of their encounters with the personifications of virtues and vices. It culminates, perhaps, with the mystical benevolence of Charity.

About the Author

After his Ph.D. work at the University of Texas at Austin focusing on seventeenth-century Ibero-American poetics, Christopher C. Lund taught Luso-Brazilian literature at Rutgers University. During his Rutgers years, he catalogued the Portuguese Manuscripts Collection at the Library of Congress. Brigham Young University recruited him in 1992 where he thrived on teaching Fernando Pessoa and Camões. He coordinated the Latin American Studies Department at BYU for nine years. He continues to be transported by the literature of the Baroque, of which Predestined is a fine example.