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The Friar and the Maya
The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. This critical and careful reading of the Account is long overdue in Maya studies and will forever change how this seminal text is understood and used. For generations, scholars used (and misused) the Account as the sole eyewitness insight into an ancient civilization. It is credited to the sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan, monastic inquisitor, and bishop Diego de Landa, whose legacy is complex a...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
World Guide to Libraries
Covers general and special libraries arranged by country and then by type. Includes: national, general research, university and college, professional school, government, ecclesiastical, corporate or business, and public libraries.
Gli Incogniti e l’Europa
La veneziana Accademia degli Incogniti ebbe posizione di spicco nel panorama letterario italiano del seicento, per il rilievo delle opere prodotte collettivamente o individualmente da suoi membri nell’ambito della lirica, della narrativa romanzesca e novellistica, del teatro. Il successo di tali opere, a incominciare da quelle del fondatore dell’Accademia, Giovan Francesco Loredano, fu europeo. Ma europeo fu anche lo sguardo di molti degli Incogniti, attenti ai suggerimenti delle letterature straniere. Così che tra l’Accademia e l’Europa si istituì un rapporto di dare e di avere. Su tale rapporto indaga questo libro, apportando nuovi dati, e soprattutto perseguendo il fine di collo...
