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Encounters with Islam --Europe and the New World. Encounters with Islam -- Europe and the New World. I. ENCOUNTERS WITH ISLAM -- From SUNJATA: A WEST AFRICAN EPIC (late 13th-early 14th century) o(Translated by David C. Conrad) -- oTHE BOOK OF DEDE KORKUT (15th century) The Story of How Basat Killed Goggle-Eye (Translated by Geoffrey Lewis) -- EVLIYA ÇELEBI (1611-1682) From The Book of Travels o(Translated by Gottfried Hagan) -- INDIAN POETRY AFTER ISLAM -- BASAVANNA (1106-1167) o8 [Look, the world, in a swell of waves, is beating upon my face!] o21 [Father, in my ignorance, you brought me] o59 [Cripple me, father] o97 [The master of the house, is he at home, or isn't he?] o111 [I went to fornicate, but all I got was counterfeit] 212 [Don't you take on this thing called bhakti] 494 [I don't know anything like time- beats and metre] 563 [The pot is a god] 703 [Look here, dear fellow] 820 [The rich will make temples for Siva] (Translated by A. K. Ramanujan) MAHADEVIYAKKA (12th century) 17 [Like a silkworm weaving her house with love] o60 [Not seeing you in the hill, in the forest] o75 [You are the forest] o79 [Four parts of the day I grieve for you] o88 [He bartered my heart] o199 [For hunger, there is the town's rice in the begging bowl] 336 [Look at love's marvellous ways] (Translated by A. K. Ramanujan) -- KABIR (15th century) oThe Final State oAnt oMosque with Ten Doors oPurity oDebate oMoth oThe Simple State oDon't Stay Aphorisms 3 [Don't be vain, Kabir] o 9 [Kabir, sow such a seed] o 12 [Even if you were to transform the seven oceans into ink] o 20 [The man with a truthful heart is best] o 31 [Knowledge ahead, knowledge behind] o 32 [The one who stays within the limits assigned to him is a man] o 37 [Accomplish one thing and you accomplish all] o46 [The poem of witness is the eye of knowledge] o(Translated by Vinay Dharwadker) -- MIRABAI (16th century) o[My sleep's rotten, my friend] o[The cowherd who carries mountains] o[I'm steeped] o[Darling, come visit me] o[My lord who lifts mountains] o(Translated by Vinay Dharwadker) TUKARAM (1608-1650) The Rich Farmer The Harvest The Waterwheel The Prisoner Begging for God's Compassion Vitthala (Translated by Vinay Dharwadker) -- II. EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD -- oHUMANISM AND THE REDISCOVERY OF THE CLASSICAL PAST Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori (Translated by Allan H. Gilbert) François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel Book I, Chapters 52-57 ["The Abbey of Théleme"] Book II, Chapter 8 ["Father's Letter from Home"] Book II, Chapters 18-20 ["Disputation with Thaumaste"] (Translated by Burton Raffel) oJoachim Du Bellay, from "The Antiquities of Rome": Sonnets 3, 5, 13, 15 (Translated by Richard Helgerson) -- oPETRARCH AND THE LOVE LYRIC Francis Petrarch, Sonnets 1 [You who hear in scattered rhymes] 3 [It was the day when the sun's rays turned pale with grief] 34 [Apollo, if the sweet desire is still alive that inflamed you] (Translated by Robert M. Durling) 62 [Father in heaven, after each lost day (Translated by Bernard Bergonzi) 126 [Clear, fresh, sweet waters] 189 [My ship laden with forgetfulness] (Translated by Robert M. Durling) 333 [Go, grieving rimes of mine] (Translated by Morris Bishop) Garcilaso De La Vega, Sonnets 1 [When I stand and contemplate my state] 10 [O sweet mementoes, to my sorrow found] 23 [For as long as the lily and the rose] (Translated by Edith Grossman) oLouise Labé, Sonnets 1 [The Sting] 7 [Soul and Body] 10 [Ten Thousand Ornaments] 18 [Kiss Me Again] (Translated by Annie Finch) oVeronica Franco, Capitolo 13, A Challenge to a Lover Who Has Offended Her (Translated by Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal) William Shakespeare oSonnets 76 [Why is my verse so barren of new pride] 116 [Let me not to the marriage of true minds] 129 [The expense of spirit in a waste of shame] 130 [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] 135 [Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will] -- NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527) The Prince New Princedoms Gained with Other Men's Forces and Through Fortune [Princely Virtues] ["Fortune Is a Woman"] [The Roman Dream] (Translated by Allan H. Gilbert) -- LUDOVICO ARIOSTO (1474-1533) Orlando Furioso From Cantos 23 and 24 [Orlando's Great Madness] From Canto 25 [Fiordispina's Love for Bradamant] (Translated by Guido Waldman). THE ENCOUNTER OF EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD From Popol Vuh (Translated by Dennis Tedlock) oFrom The Huarochiri Manuscript (Translated by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste) oChristopher Columbus, Letter Concerning the First Voyage (Translated by Sir Clements R. Markham) oPedro Vaz De Caminha, From Letter to King Manuel (Translated by William Brooks Greenlee) oHernn Cortés, From The Second Letter (Translated by J. Bayard Morris) oFlorentine Codex, From Book 12, The Conquest of Mexico (Translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble) oBartolome De Las Casas, From A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Translated by Nigel Griffin) oJean De Lery, from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Translated by Janet Whatley) oGarcilaso De La Vega, El Inca (Translated by Harold V. Livermore) oGuaman Poma De Ayala, From The First New Chronicle and Good Government (Translated by David Frye) LOPE DE VEGA (1562-1635) Fuenteovejuna o(Translated by Gregary Racz) -- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark -- oGOD, CHURCH, AND SELF oMartin Luther, To the Christian Nobility (Translated by Charles M. Jacobs) oTeresa of Avila, From The Book of Her Life (Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez) oArcangela Tarabotti, From Paternal Tyranny (Translated by Letizia Panizza) San Juan de la Cruz, Song II: The Dark Night San Juan de la Cruz, Song III: Flame of Living Love (Translated by Edith Grossman) oJohn Donne, Holy Sonnet 4 [Oh my black soul!] oJohn Donne, Holy Sonnet 5 [I am a little world made cunningly] oJohn Donne, Holy Sonnet 14 [Batter my heart, three-persond God] -- JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) Paradise Lost Book 1 [This Great Argument] [Satan on the Fiery Lake] Book 2 [The Devil's Consult] Book 4 [Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in Their Bower] Book 8 [Adam Describes His Own Creation and That of Eve; The Angel Repeats His Warning and Departs] Book 9 [Temptation and Fall] Book 10 [Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope] Book 12 [The World Was All Before Them] III. EAST ASIAN DRAMA ZEAMI MOTOKIYO (ca. 1363-ca. 1443) Atsumori (Translated by Royall Tyler) KONG SHANGREN (1648-1718) From The Peach Blossom Fan o(Translated by Stephen Owen) oCHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON (1653-1725) Love Suicides at Amijima (Translated by Donald Keene) oFrom SONG OF A FAITHFUL WIFE, CH'UNHYANG (18th century) (Translated by Richard Rutt and Kim Chong-un) SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535) Utopia (Translated by Robert M. Adams) -- MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE (1492-1549) The Heptameron From Prologue Story 8 oStory 10 (Translated by P. A. Chilton) oTHE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES AND OF HIS FORTUNES AND ADVERSITIES (1554) (Translated by Stanley Applebaum) -- MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Essays To the Reader Of the Power of the Imagination Of Cannibals Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions Of Coaches (Translated by Donald Frame) -- MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547-1616) Don Quixote Part I Prologue [I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose] [Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan] [Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves] [Fighting the Sheep] [To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched] [Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady] Part II Prologue [Put Into a Book] [A Victorious Duel] [For Well I Know the Meaning of Valor] [Last Duel] [Homecoming and Death] (Translated by Samuel Putnam).