Fernando Gil and Helder Macedo, With a contribution by Luís de Sousa Rebelo Translation team July-August, 2008. Manuscript editing in progress. Auust 31, 2008. Manuscript editing complete. September 1-4. Final review of MS chapters. Send to Editor 1st week in September. Fall 2008. Book available. Chapter I [Translation K. David Jackson, Yale University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] 1. The Poetics of Truth in The Lusiads (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]] 2. The Lusiads Effect (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed.]] I Cantos and Contents II Veri-diction and Validation III The Failure of The Lusiads (1): Pathos and Ideology 3. The Traveling Eye: The Seas of The Lusiads (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed.]] Chapter II [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] Chapter III [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] 1. Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Chronicles (Luís de Sousa Rebelo) [[Reviewed by HM]] Chapter IV [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] 1. Sá de Miranda and the Ambiguities of Knowledge (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]] Chapter V [Translation Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] 1. Bernardim Ribeiro's Obscure Clarities (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]] 2. Modes of Absent Love (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed]] 3. Convergence and Dissent (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]] Chapter VI [Translation Richard Zenith. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] Appetite and Reason in Camões' Lyric Poetry (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]] Chapter VII [Translation Richard Zenith. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] Nationalism and Pastoralism (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]] Notes Chapter VIII [Translation Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University. Deadline: August 1, 2005.] Two Views of António Vieira (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed]] Notes 1. How to Prove Prophecy: Base the Original on the Copy 2. The Coming of the Fifth Empire and Biblical Prophecy [[MS Editing Completed]] [Editor's note] Note on the authors here. [Editor's note] Note on the translators here. Index [[TBA]] [Editor's note: the poems will appear in English and in Portuguese.]
Sponsors (translation from the Portuguese):
// Adamastor Book Series
The Traveling Eye: Retrospection, Vision, and Prophecy in the Portuguese Renaissance
Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University
K. David Jackson, Yale University
Richard Zenith, Lisbon (Coordinator)

// HIGHLIGHTS
Timetable as of August 4, 2008.
// TABLE OF CONTENTS [New order; different from the Portuguese edition]
Reviewed
Notes
Voyage and Foundation
Syntax: Aspects, Tenses, Persons, Modes
The Strangeness of Experience
Semantics: The Hypostasis of Foundation
Global Effects
The Failure of The Lusiads (2): The Persistence of Bacchus
The Failure of The Lusiads (3): Imaginative Shortcoming
Useless Service, Glorious and Miserable Love
Postscript to Complicate Matters
Notes
The Planes of Vision, or Voyage as Possibility
The Immediacy of Vision, or The Syntax of the Map
The Super-reality of Vision
Notes
Fernão Lopes on the Seventh Age and the House of Avis (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
1. Functional Truth
2. History as Prophecy
3. The Virtuous Benefit of the New Order
4. King Duarte, or The Imperatives of Reason
Notes
2. The Deceiving Eye (Helder Macedo) [[Reviewed by HM]]
2. The Obscurities of the I (Fernando Gil) [[MS Editing Completed]]
Notes
2.1 The Book and What Is Written in It
2.2 Duplications of Self
2.3 The Vision of Love and the Immanence of Death
Notes
Ways of Reading
Mode of Life: Sorrow, Misfortune, Exile
Love
On the Mode of Love's (Not) Being
On the Mode of (Not) Knowing Love
Mode of Telling
Anamnesis and Foundation
Lamentor and Belisa: The Modality of Existence and Non-Existence
Bimarder and Aónia: The Modality of Necessity and Contingency
Avalor and Arima: The Modality of Possibility and Impossibility
The Soma and the Silence
Notes
Notes
The Syllogism of the Prophecy
António Vieira in the Prophetic Tradition
Operations and Objects, Expectation and Fulfillment
The Unfolding of the Prophecy and its Problems
Consequence: "The King Must Resurrect"
The Major Premise: "Bandarra Was a True Prophet"
The Minor Premise: "Bandarra Prophesied the Still Incomplete Deeds of the Dead King"
Realism and Intuition: The "Probable" Prophecy
Deduction or Abduction? The Future in the Present
Hallucination and Abduction: The King's Resurrection
Notes
Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas
Fundação Luso-Americana
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Last Updated On: 9/6/08