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Book-Review: La zarzuela en Sevilla. Crónicas musicales atribuidas a Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Marta Palenque y Andrés Moreno Mengíbar, Sevilla, Diputación de Sevilla, Colección Arte Hispalense, 2022, 182 pp.

Book-Review: Sobre España en el largo siglo XVIII | Juan Díaz Álvarez, Fernando Manzano Ledesma, Rodrigo Olay Valdés (coords.), Gijón, Ediciones Trea, 2021, 669 pp.

Book-Review: Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimiento honesto [Desengaños amorosos] | María de Zayas. Edición de Alicia Yllera, Madrid, Cátedra, 2021, 696 pp.

Book-Review: Incendio mineral, María Ángeles Pérez López, epílogo de Julieta Valero, Madrid, Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2021, 85 pp.

Book-Review: Un único corazón, Alejandro Duque Amusco, Valencia, Pre-textos, 2022, 88 pp.

The material that I have managed to uncover has enabled me to reconstruct, with a fair amount of detail, the story of a crime of passion that took place the middle of the 19th century in Tardajos de Duero, a little village in the Spanish province of Soria. The outcome of the crime was the garrotting of the murderess and her lover. The ecclesiastical archives house books that reveal very interesting details about the personal life of the murderess and about the way the execution was carried out. The crime was reported in the Spanish press and reopened the debate on the death penalty in Spain. What is more, the story was rapidly turned into legend by way of popular printed pamphlets. As such, it had a powerful impact on the collective memory, as had happened in earlier centuries with other famous and horrid crimes of passion, several of which are also referred to here.

Book-Review: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ed. Diego Martínez Torrón, Sevilla, Renacimiento, 2020, 2 vols. 980 y 1024 pp.

This article presents the textual history of the novel Trabajos del vicio (1680), the only secular book written by Simón de Castelblanco (OSA). From the perspective of literary sociology in connection with material bibliography, we will address the relevance of Trabajos del vicio in the editorial line of Lorenzo García’s atelier and in the light of the Madrid publishing market of the late of Baroque. We also analyze the editorial rejuvenation to which the novel was subjected in 1684 with a change of title to Traiciones de la hermosura;we study the intentions, both of the author and the publisher, regarding the search for a suitable dedicatee for the novel, and we hypothesises the causes of the commercial failure.

Book-Review: Descripción de La Tapada | Lope de Vega, ed. Alberto Fadón Duarte, Madrid, Giardini di Bomarzo, 2020, 251 pp.

The captivity of Christians in Barbary constitutes one of the most recurrent elements of all the golden literature, and this is how it has been studied since the second half of the twentieth century. On what the main historians of literature have said, we will propose an approach to captive writing not as a simple literary motif but as an individual literary genre, comparable to the other genres that emerged during the Golden Age of Spanish literature.