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Esta monografía estudia la tradición clásica del De rerum natura de Lucrecio en la literatura española, desde Isidoro de Sevilla hasta la actualidad. Esta joya de la Antigüedad ha sido el poema didáctico por excelencia de la literatura latina junto con los Georgica de Virgilio. En ella Lucrecio expuso la filosofía de Epicuro a fin de liberar a los hombres del miedo a la muerte y a los dioses. Cuando Poggio Bracciolini redescubrió el texto en 1417, la obra se convirtió en el enquiridión más leído de la Escuela del Jardín, comenzando entonces una nueva trayectoria, plagada de...

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Provides Spanish and English translations for thousands of medical terms, along with introductions to pronunciation and grammar, and advice on interviews, symptoms, tests, diagnoses, specialized words and phrases, and common verb forms.

This is the text of Moratin's "El Si de las Ninas", in Spanish with an English introduction and notes.