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Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint
The life story of a woman who, financially unable to enter the convent, improvised a vocation running houses of refuge for young women at risk - Denounced to the Inquisition in 1664, this life story, as dictated to a court-appointed scribe, is her defence - Social life of Venice - Religious vocation - Renaissance women.
The Invention of Argentina
The nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. In The Invention of Argentina, Nicholas Shumway offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place among the nations of the world. His analysis is crucial to understanding not only Argentina's development but also current events in the Argentine Republic.
Politics of Temporalization
A postcolonial study of the conceptualization of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America as medieval and oriental If Spain and Portugal were perceived as backward in the nineteenth century—still tainted, in the minds of European writers and thinkers, by more than a whiff of the medieval and Moorish—Ibero-America lagged even further behind. Originally colonized in the late fifteenth century, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil were characterized by European travelers and South American elites alike as both feudal and oriental, as if they retained an oriental-Moorish character due to the centuries-long presence of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula. So, Nadia R. Altschul observes, the Scottis...
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
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The Orlando Furioso
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