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Updated: June 19, 2025
In Spain, when in 1852 Don Juan Hartzenbusch edited Alarcon's comedies for the Biblioteca de Autores Espanoles, he had to remark on the unjust neglect of that good author in Spain also, where the poets and men of letters had long wished in vain for a complete edition of his works.
Biblioteca Ambrosiana A Lamp in a Sepulchre The Palimpsests Labours of the Monks in the Cause of Knowledge Cardinal Mai He recovers many valuable Manuscripts of the Ancients which the Monks had Mutilated Ulfila's Bible The War against Knowledge The Brazent Serpent at Sant' Ambrogio Passport Office Last Visit to the Duomo and the Arco Della Pace The Alps apostrophized Dinner at a Restaurant Leave Milan Procession of the Alps Treviglio The River Adda The Postilion Evening, with dreamy, decaying Borgos Caravaggio Supper at Chiari Brescia Arnold of Brescia.
Just across the river rises S. Croce, where the great man is buried, and beyond, over the red roofs, the dome of the Medici chapel at S. Lorenzo shows us the position of the Biblioteca Laurenziana and the New Sacristy, both built by him. Immediately below us is the church of S. Niccolo, where he is said to have hidden in 1529, when there was a hue and cry for him.
And then in this palace, built for Cosimo I, by Giorgio Vasari, the delightful historian of the Italian painters, you may find not only paintings but a great collection of sculpture also, a magnificent collection of drawings and jewels, together with the Archives, the Biblioteca Nazionale, which includes the Palatine and the Magliabecchian Libraries.
It is impossible for Florentine cloisters or indeed any cloisters not to have a certain beauty, and these are unusually charming and light, seen both from the loggia and the ground. Michelangelo's Biblioteca Laurenziana, which leads from them, is one of the most perfect of sombre buildings, the very home of well-ordered scholarship.
Guicciardini, who was certainly no friend to him, and regarded him as the inveterate foe of Florence, describes him as "a creature of very rare perfection, most excellent for his eloquence and industry and many gifts of nature and spirit, and not unworthy of the name of milde and mercifull;" and the Milanese doctor Arluno, the author of an unpublished chronicle in the Biblioteca Marciana at Venice, says, "He had a sublime soul and universal capacity.
He disposes more summarily of this portion than of that in which he himself was both a spectator and an actor; where his testimony, considering the advantages his position gave him for information, is of the highest value. Alcedo in his Biblioteca Americana, MS., speaks of Zarate's work as "containing much that is good, but as not entitled to the praise of exactness."
A notable departure has been the foundation of the Folklore Society, and the publication up to the present time of eleven volumes under the name of Biblioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Españolas, under the direction of Señor Don Antonio Machado y Alvarez.
Nay, what was Cervantes' own life but a romance of chivalry? See the essay of Salva's in Ochoa, Apuntes para una Biblioteca, vol. ii, pp. 723-740. I know one great Spanish scholar who has never forgiven Cervantes for destroying the books of chivalries. But his anger is rather that of the bibliographer than of the critic or patriot. He has the best collection of those evil books in Europe.
STAHL, D. AGUSTIN. Los Indios Borinqueños. Puerto Rico, 1887. TAPIA, D. ALEJANDRO. Biblioteca histórica de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, 1854. TORRES, D. LUIS LLORENS. América. Estudios históricos y filológicos. Madrid y Barcelona, 1897. UBEDA Y DELGADO, D. MANUEL. Isla de Puerto Rico, Estudio histórico-geográfico. Puerto Rico, 1878.
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