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Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
The Ambassador Juan Ramírez de Lucena, the father of the chessbook writer Lucena
This is the first bibliography in English of the protonotary Juan Ramírez de Lucena (1430-1504) who was one of the ambassadors of the Catholic monarchs. He was the father of Lucena, the writer of a chess book that was published in Salamanca in 1997. Knowing the biography of the protonotary and his activities in Italy and France in the highest sphere of society it is clear that his son Lucena could take advantage of this, because his father had opened the door in many places. No doubt that during the life of the protonotary Juan Ramírez de Lucena his son visited these places in Italy and France, as Lucena himself confirmed in the chess treaty of 1497.
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez
In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez has long been regarded as a work of fiction—in fact, as Latin America's first novel—but Fabio López Láza...
Kingship and Favoritism in the Spain of Philip III, 1598-1621
A reappraisal of the reign of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621), and the king's favourite, first published in 2000.
Carlos María Ramírez e a Construção de Uma Nova República Oriental do Uruguai: Entre a "Nação Ideal" e a "Nação Real" (1868-1898)
Carlos María Ramírez e a construção de uma nova República Oriental do Uruguai: entre a "nação ideal" e a "nação real" (1868-1898) propõe, à luz da História dos Intelectuais, da História Intelectual e da História Conceitual, compreender o complexo caminho de consolidação nacional uruguaia mediante a análise do pensamento e da ação política do professor, publicista, escritor e político Carlos María Ramírez (1848-1898), durante a segunda metade do século XIX. Ramírez teve uma diversificada atuação para além do ambiente estritamente acadêmico. Por meio das suas sociabilidades, criou associações e periódicos, e, dentro desses espaços, elaborou suas propostas com o...
