The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate. Alexandre de Gusmão. Trans. Christopher C. Lund. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 489; Medieval and Renaissance Latin America 2. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. xxxvi + 138 pp. $55.

The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate , published in Portugal in 1682, is an allegorical novel originally written in Portuguese by Father Alexandre de Gusmão (1629–1724) in the Jesuit mission territory of Brazil. Subsequent editions were printed in both Portuguese and Spanish in Europe and the Americas. Christopher C. Lund’s translation is part of the Latin America series in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and is the first English-language edition. It is a welcome addition to scholarly work in the fields of colonial Latin American history and Jesuit history.