New Spanish Titles - Spring 2012

Pedro I, who became Emperor of Brazil at the age of twenty-three, left his mark on the history of two continents. A larger-than- ife, contraddictory character, women were both his salvation and damnation: while his wife, the virtuous Leopoldina of Austria, raised him to the heights, his lover, the passionate Domitila de Castro, dragged him down into decadence.

In this pleasant and provocative work the authors reject creeping state interference, power’s coercion and intimidation, as well as its ongoing efforts to reduce citizens’ rights and the claims that it knows what’s best for its subjects.

Gesualdo Bonocompagni, a young Sicilian doctor, based in the Court of Carlos II, is sent by the Marquis de Esquilache to the north of Spain to spread knowledge of a new surgical practice: caesarean section on dead pregnant women to avoid that their children are buried alive inside them.

When did music begin? This question leads Ramón Andrés from the original encounter of humans with sound to the work of contemporary composers, from China to Mesopotamia via India, Egypt, Greece and Rome to the West today, through magic, medicine, mathematics and astronomy.