Translation of: Viagens do olhar : retrospecção, visão e profecia no renascimento português.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Poetics of Truth in The Lusiads / Helder Macedo Macedo, Helder -- The Lusiads Effect / Fernando Gil Gil, Fernando -- The Traveling Eye: The Seas of The Lusiads / Gil, Fernando, K. David Jackson Jackson, K. David -- Fernao Lopes, the Seventh Age and the House of Avis / Macedo, Helder, Kenneth Krabbenhoft Krabbenhoft, Kenneth -- The Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Chronicles / Luis de Sousa Rebelo Rebelo, Luis de Sousa -- The Deceiving Eye / Sa de Miranda and the Ambiguities of Knowledge / The Groundless Self / Gil, Fernando, Kenneth Krabbenhoft Bernardim Ribeiro's Obscure Clarities / Modes of Absent Love / Convergence and Dissent / Macedo, Helder, Anna M. Klobucka Klobucka, Anna M. -- Appetite and Reason in Camoes's Lyric Poetry / Macedo, Helder, Richard Zenith Zenith, Richard -- Nationalism and Pastoralism / Two Views of Antonio Vieira -- How to Prove Prophecy: Base the Original on the Copy / The Coming of the Fifth Empire and Biblical Prophecy / Krabbenhoft, Kenneth