Abstract
This essay aims to explore the presence of the East in the European heroic (epic) poem of the sixteenth century. The structure and the articulation of the argument are based on a comparison of two works: L de Camoes’ I Lusiadi and T Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata. Through a textual analysis approach and a comparative literature methodology, I have attempted to provide both a reading of the two poems – which takes into account different bodies of knowledge, historical-ideological, literary-cultural, and semantic-linguistic – and a comparison between them. From such a comparison, there emerge similarities and differences as regards the two poets’ representations of “the Other”, in which a Western and an Eastern point of view meet and intersect. One of the results of this research has been the identification of a common rhetoric of Otherness in Renaissance European literature, which transcends the works of Camoes and Tasso.
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