2018-04-242018-04-241996-12FONSECA, Pedro. Colonial american literature: marvelous wonders and the medieval tradition in luso-brazilian historiographical chronicles. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 8, n. 1, p. 105-124, Jan./Dec. 1996. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/7361/5229>.0103-7250http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/14600This article presents an interpretative analysis of certain aspecls of lhe medieval literary imaginary and its influence in the tropological formation of lhe New World chronicles. The approach examines some of lhe aesthetic and mental molivations of lhe medieval tradition in the colonial Luso-Brazilian historiographical discoursc. principally in regais to some accounts of discoveries and initial occupalion of Brazilian lands in America.engAcesso AbertoArtigo10.5216/sig.v8i1.7361