Maximilian’s Journeys through Spain and Brazil: The Long Way to the Mexican Empire

In May of 1864, Maximilian of Austria reached the Mexican coast, being this journey his last, ending three years later with his execution. Much has been written about the reasons that prompted his acceptance of the crown of Mexico, a country so distant in every sense of his cultural environment. However, years ago Maximilian had traveled to Spain and Brazil (to Spain twice) and these experiences, although not determinant, greatly influenced the decision of the Archduke, who saw the chance to realize a dream he had conceived on his trip to Spain and that was consolidated during his stay in Brazil, as we can extract from his travel memoirs.

San Juan Damasceno, ‘Diálogo entre un sarraceno y un cristiano’

El presente trabajo ofrece el texto griego del Dialogo de un Sarraceno y un cristiano con una traducción española. En la introducción tratamos de los autores posibles, los contenidos y los principales asuntos en discusión en el seno del Islam, así como generalidades sobre el género literario y el griego del escrito. Por último se ensaya una posible explicación del desorden temporal (que oscila sin aparente sentido entre el aoristo y el presente), partiendo de la moderna teoría lingüística conocida como teoría de la perfectividad.

El Libro del Governador o Suma de collaciones o de ayuntamientos: versión castellana del "Communiloquium" de Juan de Gales

The intellectual production of Johannes Gallensis (also known as John of Wales, c. 1210/30 – 1285), regent-master of the Friars Minor at Oxford and later a lecturer and Doctor of Theology at Paris, was oriented towards furnishing Catholic preachers with a variety of compilations of moral philosophy aimed to serve them in their pastoral ministry. One of these compilations is the Communiloquium, a manual of a kind, which displays its author's attempt to provide adequate and specific argumentation for admonishing all sorts and types of devotees. Its most prominent characteristic is a highly accurate use of classical auctoritates and exempla, which turned this work into a kind of anthology of quotations and references, for it offered its readers the possibility of citing sources and texts that they themselves had never actually consulted. The impressive number of manuscript copies of the Communiloquium that reached our times bears witness to its great popularity (some one hundred and sixty dispersed in different European libraries, according to Jenny Swanson’s John of Wales. A Study of the Work and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar). The Communiloquium must have reached the Iberian soil by means of Franciscan friars and soon spread through courtly circles, as much as in the religious milieu, due to the political taint of its first part, rooted in the organological metaphor and containing extensive reflections on the virtues and the due behaviour of a monarch. In the Crown of Aragon, the Communiloquium used to be read out loud even among the artisans. In Castile, on the other hand, particularly between the XIIIth and the XVth centuries, its main audience happened to be the lettered nobility and those intellectuals who, dedicated to composing glosas and specula principum, required its resources...

Diary of the Rev. John Ward, A. M., vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, extending from 1648 to 1679. From the original mss. preserved in the library of the Medical society of London.

Microfilmed for preservation

Extracts from a Lancashire diary, 1663-1678, in the possession of John Leyland of the Grange, Hindley, near Wigan.

"Reprinted from the L̀ocal Gleanings' in the M̀anchester Courier'."

Conspiracy of the Spaniards against Venice, and of John Lewis Fiesco against Genoa.

Conspiracy of the Spaniards against Venice / abbé Real -- Conspiracy of John Lewis Fiesco against Genoa / cardinal Retz.

Prussia and the Franco-Prussian war. Containing a brief narrative of the origin of the kingdom, its past history, and a detailed account of the causes and results of the late war with Austria; with an account of the origin of the present war with France, and of the extraordinary campaign into the heart of the empire. Including biographical sketches of King William and Count von Bismarck /

Mode of access: Internet.

Moneys received and paid for secret services of Charles II. and James II. from 30th March, 1679, to 25th December, 1688.

Mode of access: Internet.

School music abroad : a series of reports on visits to schools in Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy and America, during the years 1882 to 1901 /

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

The plays are printed in the order found in the second folio "Fifty comedies and tragedies," 1679, with facsimile reproductions of early title-pages.

Moneys received and paid for secret service of Charles II. and James ll. from 30th March, 1679, to 25th December, 1688.

Mode of access: Internet.

The rambling justice, or, The jealous husbands. With the humours of Sir John Twiford. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Interview with Dr. John Rock, the Founding Dean of Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

A series of interviews with the founding deans of Florida Interanational University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine conducted on April 6, 2011 by Bohyun Kim, the Digital Access Librarian at Florida International University Medical Library. This audio recording is the interview with Dr. John Rock, the Founding Dean of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University and the format of the audio file is MP3.