El secreto de Diana

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Text in Spanish. A collection of nine contemporary short stories by outstanding Puerto Rican authors including Pedro Juan Soto, Wilfredo Braschi, Jaime Carrero, Jose Luis Gonzalez, and Tomas Blanco.

"Nextext Spanish readers offer short stories, poems, plays, and essays by prominent writers of Spain and Latin America presented entirely in Spanish. These collections are ideal for a variety of upper-level courses, particularly advanced placement Spanish literature."--Back covers.

Los trabajos que agrupa este volumen cubren las areas de la filologia y la linguistica espanolas, desde un punto de vista tanto historico como actual. En concreto, se presentan nuevas aportaciones a la morfologia, como la variacion interna a que da lugar el sufijo <I>-torio, sobre todo para derivar nombres de lugar y eventivos con el rasgo semantico ] durativo], y a la sintaxis, con el estudio del desplazamiento de las formas subjuntivas por las indicativas en el castellano rural del norte peninsular.<BR> Los trabajos de caracter historico se centran en los distintos procedimientos...