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"He envejecido mucho desde mis primeras publicaciones, que tuvieron lugar en el año 1580. Pero dudo que me haya vuelto una pulgada más sabio. Yo entonces y yo ahora somos por cierto dos: cuál es mejor no puedo decirlo. Sería bonito ser viejo si uno no se encaminara a otra cosa que al mejoramiento. Es un titubeante andar de borracho, vertiginoso, informe, o de juncos que el aire maneja azarosamente según los designios de la brisa.”Todo es relativo. Ésa es la gran lección que sobrevuela este texto, extraído del libro III de los Ensayos de Montaigne. Pilar de un auténtico monumento literario, De la vanidad nos acerca una propuesta esencial: conservar el espíritu crítico, pues ningún conocimiento es absoluto. En un siglo en el cual reinan las guerras de religión, la miseria y la vanidad, Montaigne reclama el derecho a dudar, para defender el eclecticismo y la tolerancia. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) fue uno de los escritores más influyentes del Renacimiento francés. En sus escritos demuestra una asombrosa habilidad para mezclar la especulación teórica más rigurosa con anécdotas casuales y autobiográficas. Buena parte de la literatura moderna de no ficción debe su génesis a Montaigne, quien dejó su huella en autores como Shakespeare, Rousseau y Nietzsche.
Discusses the history, botanical background, and legendary and medicinal properties of onions, garlic, shallots, chives, leeks, and other members of the allium family.
Contributions of Iberian-born writers have gone largely unrecognized by most European and American readers. The rich history of literary achievements in the Iberian Penninsula is now available in this unprecedented dictionary. Defining literature in the broad sense, the Dictionary includes historical, religious, cultural and philosophical writings as well as prose, poetry, and drama from the Iberian Peninsula. Virtually all entries have been composed by noted scholars and are complemented wherever possible by bibliographies of primary texts and selected critical studies as well as existing English translations of primary texts. This two-volume work generally includes literature from the tenth century to the mid-1980s and--with a few exceptions--is limited to writers born in the Iberian Peninsula. A guide to determining the format of the Dictionary was the classic Diccionario de Literatura Espanola by German Bleiberg and Julian Marias. But this updated and reworked version devotes more attention to writings by formerly neglected or forgotten works by female authors and to writers in major languages other than Spanish in the peninsula, including Portuguese, Catalan and Galician. There are also entries on major time periods, movements, and other topics. Titles of works discussed are translated to English. Wherever possible, the text of each entry is followed by a three part bibliography; and some cross-referencing. The Dictionary will appeal to English-speaking non-specialists as well as scholars of Iberian literature.
This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas and crops.