El conocimiento organizado de un hombre de Trento. La biblioteca de Pedro del Frago, obispo de Huesca, en 1584

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.

Anna Franchi publicó su novela Adelante el divorcio en 1902. Su convicción de la necesidad de la promulgación de una ley que permita la disolución del matrimonio y su actividad febril durante esos años para conseguir que ese sueño se hiciera realidad se integran perfectamente en un contexto, el de la Italia a caballo entre el siglo XIX y el XX, en el que desde el Feminismo, pero también desde el Parlamento, se lucha por la mejora sustancial de la condición de la mujer y por la consecución de los derechos más necesarios. Una batalla que, sin embargo, no va a dar fruto hasta décadas...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...