The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón

Il primo numero della rivista è stato pubblicato nel 1990 all’interno della collana “Studi di letteratura Ispanoamericana” diretta dal prof. Giuseppe Bellini dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. Dal fascicolo n. 9/2000 è rivista del Dipartimento di Scienze Linguistiche dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore sotto la Direzione del prof. Dante Liano, Ordinario di Lingua e letterature ispanoamericane nella medesima Università. «Centroamericana» tratta temi legati alla lingua, alla letteratura e alla cultura dei paesi del Centro America e delle Antille. Esce con due...

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

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...

De la ingente producción de Aristóteles (toda la información sobre su figura y su obra puede verse en la "Introducción general" al autor incluida en el núm. 14 de esta colección) son numerosas las obras conservadas, pero también son muchas las que se