Felipe II

Believer in modernism loves pious girl and personifies the struggle between scientific enlightenment and obscurantism.

Entre el último tercio del XVIII y el primero del XIX se fragua una crisis de valores dentro del proceso evolutivo de la cultura española. La pugna entre las instituciones tradicionales y el dinamismo de la Ilustración, coincide con ese cambio de perspectivas donde las formas del pensamiento neoclásico parecen descomponerse bajo los influjos ideológicos que prepararían la revolución romántica.

Based on the original manuscript, this book also contains the proper iconography of the literary work. It includes an introduction accompanied by a biography & a critical study of the work, the complete text, footnotes at the bottom of each page, glossary, illustrations of the original text, two bibliographies, & an index.

It tackles the history of Love as a cultural idea in the two decades that came after the Civil War as a substantial part of human comprehension of reality and as a way of organizing individual and social practices. This idea, this book suggests, played a crucial role on women subordination, through the configuration of their identity and subjectivity.