Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

During the reign of Philip II, various battles were fought, and one of the most difficult internal conflicts was the rebellion of the Alpujarras. The news about the Morisco revolt was published in different formats, handwritten and printed. In this sense, the popular literature that was printed was familiar with this phenomenon, and chapbooks displayed different facts about the uprising. In this study, we are particularly interested in an account of events, preserved in two chapbooks printed in different parts of the Peninsula, which includes the confession of Brianda Pérez, wife of Fernando de Córdoba y Válor also known by his Arab name Abén Humeya, who was the leader of the Morisco revolt. Until recently, there had been doubts about the existence of this woman and her confession, but recent documents prove that those facts were real. Therefore, Brianda Pérez’ poetry chapbook takes on new meaning.

Chapbook no. 1066 in the Nuevo Diccionario bibliográfico de pliegos sueltos poéticos (s. XVI) includes a group of traditional and courtly villancicos with a long bibliographical tradition that is set in motion with Juan del Encina´s Cancionero and encompasses the century originating with the musical cancioneros of the first decades of the sixteenth century and culminating in the printed and manuscript cancioneros of the early seventeenth century. Our analysis indicates that we are dealing with a fashionable body of courtly poetry  that was read and sung by the literate classes of that period which also coincides with the blossoming of Petrarchism.

Around 1550-1551 a whole series of romanceros appears, more or less directly related to the Cancionero de romances, printed some years earlier (1546-1547) by Martín Nucio in Antwerp. Starting from this date, the present work offers a possible explanation for the relative delay of these editions, relating them to the late reception of Nucio's work in the context of Prince Philip's trip to Flanders. The chronological sequence of these editions is then discussed, placing them in the specific editorial context of their appearance.

Presentación del volumen extraordinario n.º 4 del BLO: Literatura popular impresa en la Península Ibérica durante los Siglos de Oro: transmisión, textos, prácticas y representaciones 

This work presents a comparative study of 16th century poetical chapbooks in Castilian Spanish and Catalan for the first time, which sets out to contribute to the outline of a more reliable cartography of the printed popular literature in the Iberian Peninsula at the dawn of the Early Modernity. The analysis covers three fundamental aspects: material, iconographic and thematic traditions, along with their associated social uses. The extensive methodological approach adopted in this analysis lays the foundations for future thorough studies. The Appendix Iconography depicts the visual tradition, variations of the «celestinesca» factótum woodcuts and their type-roles, as well as other generic codification images. Keywords: Poetical chapbooks, Castilian, Catalan, Comparative study, 16th century

In Spanish and Mexican Chapbooks, young women in love become parricides after their fathers disrupt their marriage. It is a literary motif that remains through centuries. The love conflict unleashes a series of crimes that end with the punishment and repentance of the protagonist. This article proposes the study of the female voices of women whose transgression consists of a crime committed in the family sphere, parricide, from a diachronic comparative perspective of Spanish pliegos and Mexican broadsheets from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

This paper focuses on the Hispanic traditional ballad of El cautiverio de Guarinos. This ballad related to the ancient Carolingian epic had an extraordinary dissemination through the printing press of the Golden Age and has survived almost until the present day in the oral tradition. The first objective is to make a philological edition of the 16th century text, collating the variants of the main witnesses. The second objective is to make a contrastive analysis between the poem «Dezime vos pensamiento» (dated in the late 15th or the early 16th century) and El cautiverio de Guarinos to verify until what extent the poem is an adaptation of the ballad. The third objective is to analyze if the two branches of the modern oral tradition that have preserved the ballad (the Judeo-Spanish and the Romani tradition from the South of Andalusia) are related to the 16th century text.

This paper addresses the origins of the printed transmission of romances, paying special attention to the postincunable poetical chapbooks we conserve, but without losing sight of testimonies known through the Colombine catalogues. The analysis conducted demonstrates the interesting interrelationships and associations between romance texts and cancioneril poetry within these chapbooks, while simultaneously delving into a global interpretation of the phenomenon to help illuminate the poetical chapbooks’ process of creation as textual and editorial products, with very deliberate and clearly intentional selections of texts which comprise small literary jewels of great editorial success. The article includes, in addition, a table of romance occurrences spanning the entire 16th century, as well as two appendices designed to reflect on the presence of chapbooks and romances in the Colombine catalogues (Appendix I) and the complex interrelationships between chapbooks and cancioneros (Appendix II).

El museo, institución cultural estable como pocas en sus dos primeros siglos de existencia, está sufriendo en los últimos años una conmoción sin paralelos en otros muchos campos de la cultura. Se ha introducido en el campo del consumo de masas.