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La polémica sobre la licitud moral del teatro en la España áurea tuvo en la lectura del corpus aristotélico realizada por Tomás de Aquino su principal basamento teórico. Si bien otras autoridades grecolatinas y de la patrística fueron profusamente invocadas por los polemistas, las referencias a autoridades renacentistas fueron relativamente escasas. En este trabajo se analiza una excepción en este sentido: la intervención de José de Jesús María en este debate y el empleo que hace del De Amore o Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de Marsilio Ficino en la Primera parte de las excelencias de la virtud de la castidad (1601). Para ello, se estudia tanto la función que tiene el recurso a la obra de Ficino en la estrategia argumentativa de José de Jesús María como su relevancia en el conjunto de las intervenciones en la controversia durante el cierre de teatros que tuvo lugar entre 1597 y 1599. 

El presente artículo se aproxima al papel de la movilidad de los indianos y su lugar en el conjunto de la monarquía durante el siglo XVII. A partir de las pruebas de Juan de Cervantes y Cervantes, descendiente de una de las principales familias del patriciado urbano mexicano, para ingresar a la orden de caballería de Santiago en 1670, se revisa el entramado transatlántico de sus testigos, los cambios en la movilidad indiana con respecto a su padre y abuelo, también caballeros de Santiago, y la centralidad de sus agentes en los negocios de las Indias en la corte de Madrid.

Through the study of manuscript MSS/11720 in the National Library of Spain, this article examines patents of nobility and probanzas, or permanent records of evidence, their production, physical characteristics and artistry, and their use as diplomatic documents. This manuscript belonged to the Praves, a prominent family of classicizing architects who commissioned, had illuminated and owned it until it passed to the library of Juan Alfonso de Guerra y Sandoval, Phillip V’s chronicler and king of arms.

This article examines how what could be called the Spanish monarchy’s grand coat of arms was created for its exclusive use in the Italian printing industry. The background is traced in order to enable this to be properly appreciated and the complexities of research into heraldry in such publications from the Habsburg period are addressed by focusing on this particular edition

The Diocesan Library of Córdoba conserves a Book of Hours from the beggining of the 16th century that has gone unnoticed by specialists. The aim of this article is to make this manuscript more widely known. It was illuminated by Pedro Machuca during the early years of his training in Italy and intended for Ferdinand of Aragon, Duke of Calabria and heir of the royal house of Naples, which he never ruled. It might have come to Córdoba among the books included in Bishop Angulo’s library that was bequeathed in his will to the cathedral of his episcopal see in 1516. All the illuminated pages are reproduced in an appendix.

This article analyses the allegorical frontispieces of the History of Mallorca by Joan Dameto and Vicente Mut, a work consisting of two volumes, both printed by the Guasp family: the Historia General del Reyno Baleárico (1633) by Dameto and the second volume, the Historia del Reyno de Mallorca (1650) by Mut. These are two of the most emblematic printed works of the Baroque period in Mallorca.

This article locates and describes eleven illustrated incunabula of the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses found in Spanish libraries. With some exceptions, this set of editions are to be found in the libraries of some of the oldest Spanish univer