HUMANISM AND COLONIALISM: THE POETICS OF EUROCENTRIC CAPITALISM IN THREE 16th CENTURY WORKS

The early adhesion of Orlando furioso to the so-called "Renaissance literature" did not permit us to recognize its foundational significance for the production of a Eurocentric discourse related to colonization processes. The works that have fully had such dimension acknowledged-Os Lusiadas and La Araucana-reproduce the attributes and cultural representations that had already been canonized in Ariosto's book. Based on some methodological proposals in postcolonial code, this article aims to show the constitutional role of Orlando in 16th century epic European narrative. Based on the episodes of prophetic content, found in the three books, we propose a reading of the corpus in dialogue with the system Humanism integrated as a cultural program of the bourgeoisie, capitalism as an economic model and colonialism as a political project. Furthermore, it forms the basis of Eurocentric discourse and its main modern ideological constructions: the reason and the nation.