Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

he human right of access to public information, in the context of the Human Rights International Law, is made up of multiple sub-rights and state obligations. Based on these elements, the present text studies the degree of incidence of six categories of the standard in the design of the transparency policies implemented for the Federal Public Administration in the period 2001-2021. Our hypothesis is that, despite being oriented towards transparency and access to information, the policies don´t comply with most of the international obligations foreseen.

This article draws on the most recent research carried out in Japan on the censorship of publishers between the 17th and 19th centuries, also known as the Edo period. It shows how censorship impacted works associated with Christianity. Results are divided into two chronologically distinct sections. The first deals with the 17th century; it is characterized by intense control of works related to Christianity imported from China and the indirect pressure exerted by the authorities on publishers who produced such works, even if their editions were anti-Christian. This pressure would intensify throughout the 17th century, a process that is reflected in the illustrations of different editions. The second section focuses on the 18th century which is characterized by the forging of a nation-wide system of government control aimed at eliminating any possibility that matter related to Japan’s Christian past could be published. This system continues until the middle of the 19th century, but is unable to prevent the distribution of works on this subject; they experience a resurgence thanks to the circulation of texts in manuscript outside the normal channels of publication.

This article records the bibliographical discovery of a short and completely unknown work that is of interest for the study of humanist medicine in the 17th century. In addition, it examines an unrecorded edition through what is doubtless its only surviving copy. A bibliographical description is offered together with brief comments on aspects worthy of consideration.

The Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples has its origins in the Biblioteca di Stato of Alfonso the Magnanimous who is always associated with Italian Humanism. An analysis of the books it contained confirms that at its heart lay its development from a library appropriate for a medieval monarch to one suited to a new, humanist prince. This article traces its origins and reconstructs its history through a chronological study of its early inventories, correspondence, chancery records and accounts of payments, as well as books drawn upon in the writings of humanists at Alfonso’s court. In short, we aim to give voice and context to testimonies showing how the great Neapolitan storehouse of memory was built.

This article offers a cultural overview of the European industry of art, architecture and archaeology books 1485-1900, and of the social networks of artists, writers on art, scholars and publishers associated with that industry. It examines principally Basel, Antwerp, Nuremberg, Strasbourg, Venice, Rome, Florence, Paris, Lyon, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Bologna, Dresden, Leipzig, Zurich, Bassano, Parma, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. It concludes with some consideration of bibliometrics, econometrics and the methodology of the history of the book and of reading, especially as regards Spain

  Questions of legal jurisdiction found in the records for 1479 to 1495 of the Secret Seal section of the Royal Chancellery of Aragon, now in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón at Barcelona, and concerning the case of an imprisoned printer bring to light the printing of an edition of fake bulls in the Principality of Catalonia in 1493 or 1494.

In this article 17th-century notarial documents from Pamplona are examined with special attention being paid to their own characteristics and to what they can tell us about printing and books in Navarre during that century. These archival sources provide extremely useful information leading to a better understanding of the ins and outs of the local publishing industry as well as of the family and professional lives of those involved in it. In addition, different ways of extracting this information and the various types of documents that have been found in the Archivo General de Navarra are examined.

  Examining 16th-century editions of the works of Fray Juan Bautista, this article reconstructs and illustrates the process of printing and obtaining the legal permissions required for publications in New Spain. It also studies the editions, issues and states of Fray Juan Bautista’s Advertencias para los confesores de los naturales (Instructions for Confessors of Natives) published in the Santiago Tlatelolco press. The privilege governing the publication of woodcuts and engravings in Mexico is also analysed.

This article re-examines the origins of printing in Córdoba in the mid-16th century in the light of new bibliographical evidence. Previously only Valdenebro, in his 1900 bibliography, speculated on the main reasons lying behind the arrival of a printing press in the city. Since then new bibliographical evidence has come to light, increasing the number of known editions produced there during the first phase of printing (1555-1583). Material analysis combined with a study of the content of these new editions allows us to question Valdenebro’s theory and to propose a new hypothesis according to which it was the influence and sponsorship of the Bishop of Córdoba and the cathedral chapter that encouraged the permanent establishment of printing in the city.