Poemas del río Wang

Sebastián de Covarrubias y Horozco on the frontispiece of his main work, Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (1611). From the DVD edi...

Today is the anniversary of the death of Erasmus of Rotterdam. After the death of Thomas More who affected him so much, Erasmus returned fro...

Hoy es el aniversario del fallecimiento de Erasmo de Rotterdam. Después de la muerte de Tomás Moro, que tanto le afectó, Erasmo volvió desde...

Verba volant, scripta manent, said the ancients. But as they knew well how little scripta are worth if they are not backed by the gold co...

Destroyers of books and blind executors of barbarous orders there were always. The damnatio memoriae of Erasmus in the 16th-century Indic...

Destructores de libros y ciegos ejecutores de órdenes bárbaras los habido siempre y en todas partes. Hablando hace unos días de la damnati...

But why just Erasmus? Erasmus was no Luther and no Calvin. He was a Catholic priest who never rejected his vocation, he condemned the teac...

Pero ¿por qué justamente Erasmo? Erasmo no era Lutero ni Calvino. Era un sacerdote católico que nunca abandonó su vocación, que condenó las ...