In a novel set in the 1970s, the author of this poem sells his father’s corpse as fertilizer to a botanist raising carnivorous tulips. In an embedded story from this poem, the “Twelve of England” defend the honor of twelve ladies in a joust. This poem describes a cosmological system in which eleven concentric spheres surround the four elements, the “machine of the world.” In this poem, a trick played by the nymph Doris is recounted by a (*) stony monster that materializes out of a cloud. Venus prepares the “Isle of Love” (10[1])to reward the protagonists of this poem, who escape the dangers posed by the jealous god Bacchus and the (10[2])storm giant Adamastor. For 10 points, name this epic poem about the voyage of Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese national epic written by Luís de Camöes (ka-MOH-ezh). ■END■