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. (10[1])Venus prepares the “Isle of Love” (10[2])to reward the protagonists of this poem, who escape the dangers posed by the jealous god Bacchus and the 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■