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The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
A page from El Libro de los Epítomes with corrections and marginal notes. The Libro de los Epítomes (The Book of Epitomes) is a catalogue summarising part of the library of around 15–20,000 books which Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando Colón) assembled in the early sixteenth-century in an effort to create a library of every book in the world.
Copy of the Book of Chilam Balam of Ixil in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico. The Books of Chilam Balam (Mayan pronunciation: [t͡ʃilam ɓahlam]) are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving important traditional knowledge in which indigenous Maya and early Spanish traditions ...
De Interpretatione, a work by Aristotle; Exegesis, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text; Hermeneutics, the study of interpretation theory; Semantics, the study of meaning in words, phrases, signs, and symbols; Interpretant, a concept in semiotics
In Mendoza's triptych [Scorpio City (1998), El Relato de un Asesino (2001) and Satanás (2002)], the city of Bogotá is a dark muse whose beauty is dark because it condenses the infernal and the sacred, the criminal and the virtuous, the disgusting and the desirable, the painful and the pleasant. [4] "Through agile and concise prose, Mendoza ...
Text types in literature form the basic styles of writing.Factual texts merely seek to inform, whereas literary texts seek to entertain or otherwise engage the reader by using creative language and imagery.
The Spanish publisher Gaspar y Roig's bookshop in 19th-century Madrid, when El Museo Universal is displayed in its shop window.. In France, the concept of "collection" was invented by Louis Hachette, a 19th-century publisher, under the name bibliothèque, which means "library".
Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs is the story of a young aristocrat kidnapped and disfigured by his captors to display a permanent malicious grin. At the opening of the book, Hugo provides a description of the Comprachicos: