The Ties that Bind

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

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Libro que reúne por primera vez en español los textos teóricos del catalán Agustí Bartra producidos entre 1955 y 1982. Desde la insaciable curiosidad intelectual traducida en un vasto bagaje cultural que le sirvió de trasfondo a su obra poética, Bartra se ocupa aquí de temas como la epopeya de Gilgamesh o la poesía prehispánica; de clásicos modernos como Antonio Machado o T. S. Eliot, y de autores modernos como Saint-John Perse o Pablo Neruda. Textos que reflejan la idea del autor sobre la poesía como una escritura comprometida con el mundo presente, que no rompe los lazos con el...

A través de la lectura de los autorretratos de Rembrandt o de la pintura de Van Gogh, de las esculturas de Brancusi, de la obra de Miquel Barceló, Dégas, Leon Kossoff, Miguel Ángel, Antonioni, Giorgio Morandi o Frida Kahlo, el autor aventura algunos pasos hacia una pequeña teoría de lo visible, incitando a la resistencia contra la inhumanidad del nuevo orden económico mundial.