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The Spanish Disquiet
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: María M. Portuondo
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars.
Secret Science
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: María M. Portuondo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who li
The Book of Disquietude
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Fernando Pessoa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Carcanet Press

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This is the factless autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or heteronyms with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of himself.
The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Margaret Jull Costa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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A collection of Spanish fantasy fiction, including tales of ghosts, fabulous creatures, time travel, and metamorphoses.
The Indies of the Setting Sun
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Ricardo Padrón
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Narratives of Europe’s sixteenth-century westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct land mass, a continent separate from