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This article focuses on the nose in literature and, specifically, on the aquiline nose as it is outlined in the narrative corpus of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, where its presence is striking, at least in many of his early novels, and in several other European literary works that perhaps served as a model or inspiration for the writer from Cartagena. This is not an exhaustive study, but rather a series of observations on this subject —little or hardly studied at all— that may perhaps give rise to future research. We will also dwell on a possible meaning of this type of nose, that is to say, on a physiognomy that can be derived from this physiognomic trait. It is a discreet but recurrent detail, striking to the attentive reader. It is not a casual element and, therefore, one might ask how it should be interpreted or what it means.

The poetry of the Spanish Civil War responds to mechanisms of creation and dissemination that are related to its propagandistic purpose on the battlefront and in the rearguard. Among the poets of the "national" side, there are many books in which fascist-inspired concepts such as the Fatherland, the Race, the Empire or the Crusade are repeated, which are typical of a rhetorical discourse that uses slogans to encourage adherence to the cause. However, alongside these manifestations determined by the urgency of the war conflict, certain books can be found that are on the margins of the genre because they explore the pain of the victims and offer a more humanised vision, with a more elaborate poetic language. Altura. Poemas de guerra (1938), by the Galician writer José María Castroviejo, is one such book.

This article aims to face some pending questions of Teresian philology, which –despite the great results achieved– still lacks critical editions that aspire to reconstruct, according to the perspective of the autorial philology, the process of copying, correction and (sometimes) wiriting of the Libro de la Vida, undertaken by the saint herself. In order to illustrate the method and its possible achivements, with respect to the autobiography of the mystic from Ávila, some significant examples extracted from the work are discussed, and some careful editions are reviewed, analyzing their philological aim, and proposing a new point of view.

In the field of the authorial philology, with very few exceptions, for the 17th century there is a dramatic lack of both modern and critical editions and, consequently, of philological studies. The three cases presented here, although very different from each other, show how research in this field allows us to gather valuable information on the way seventeenth-century authors worked. For Marino, by reviewing the cases of Rime, Galeria and Adone, an initial assessment of the aspects and problems of the tradition of Marino’s texts has been attempted, starting with the typology of the surviving elaborative materials. In the case of Stigliani, a general overview is offered of the great mass of material available, consisting of prints, manuscripts and marginalia, witnesses to a tireless process of re-elaboration that was largely influenced by the author’s personal vicissitudes. The case of Tesauro is instead presented through his best-known work, The Aristotelian Spyglass, for which a comparison of the most significant editions has highlighted the variations in both the general structure of the book and the individual textual portions.

This paper aims to rebuild the final stages of composition of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and in particular delves into the writing of several octaves of Canto XVIII, which are transcribed in a critical edition based on the autograph manuscript preserved in Ferrara (Biblioteca Ariostea, II 475). On the basis of this analysis, some general considerations are proposed with a view to a new critical edition of the poem.  

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Paper-Review: Mariñas, Jesús (con la colaboración de Pedro Narváez), Jesús por Mariñas. Memorias desde el corazón, Madrid, La Esfera de los Libros, 2021, 297 pp.

Fernando Rodríguez de la Flor

Corn stover is a low-quality forage rich in lignocellulosic material. However, it is also a palatable and low-cost feedstuff for cattle. In this study, we hypothesized that feeding exclusively a corn stover-based diet (CSD), compared with one based on corn silage-oat hay, increases the abundance of the bacterial families and genera involved in cellulose and hemicellulose metabolism. For that purpose, we collected filtered ruminal fluid from six dry Holstein cows during two periods: Period 1, cows consumed a control diet based on corn silage and oat hay (CD), and in the Period 2, cows were fed CSD for 45 days. Ruminal fluid was collected through esophageal tubing. Ruminal microorganisms were identified by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene using the Illumina MiSeq platform. Compared with CD, feeding CSD for 45 days increased bacterial families and genera associated with higher neutral detergent fiber content and esterase and hemicellulolytic activities, such as Rikenellaceae, Prevotella, and Pseudobutyrivibrio. These results indicate that the liquid fraction of ruminal digesta contains a large number of microorganisms that help degrade lignocellulosic complexes, especially when diets with low-quality forages such as CSD are fed.