Cabecera cuadrada renacentista con bóveda pseudo-esférica cruzada en la iglesia Santiago de Orihuela (Alicante)

Jerónimo Quijano fue uno de los ilustres arquitectos destacados del Renacimiento pleno en España. Su obra, la iglesia de Santiago en Orihuela -Alicante- posee una Capilla Mayor renacentista, de carácter funerario, de planta central y adosada a una nave gótica. Destaca su bóveda superior de 4 pares de arcos entrecruzados y revirados. Al ser dobles se reduce la superficie central de plementería y se gana en resistencia. Es de complicada geometría esférica y cuadrada a la vez: bóveda pseudo-vaída (esférica solo hasta los arcos exteriores) y plementería lateral adaptándose a la planta cuadrada. Supone la fusión de la antigüedad clásica con la tradición hispanomusulmana. Como referencia, se estudia sucintamente la Capilla Benavides en Baeza - Jaén-, obra de Andrés de Vandelvira e incluida en el tratado de arquitectura de su hijo Alonso, la cual plantea un gran espacio cuadrado cubierto por una bóveda vaída y reforzada por 4 arcos entrecruzados.

Summary of the evolution of the fortifications of Santa Barbara Castle in Alicante from its origins to the beginning of the eighteenth century

Since ancient times, Alicante has been considered a strategic location on the east coast of Spain. Situated close to the sea, it is protected to the southeast by the Cape of Huerta and to the southwest by the Cape of Santa Pola. The city lies at the foot of Mount Benacantil, a high outcrop which has been the site of defensive buildings since time immemorial due to its naturally strong position: it was undoubtedly one of the strongest natural sites in the Levant. Its summit, lying 160 metres above the sea, is topped by a series of fortified enclosures now known as Santa Barbara Castle. This paper briefly describes the alterations made to the castle fortifications from its origins through the Renaissance, including the Muslim and Christian periods until the late fifteenth century and subsequent alterations to adapt new bastioned fortification techniques, and depicts the status of the fortress in each period. This paper is the result of doctoral research carried out at different national and international archives and leading to a thesis presented in 2011.

Half of a yellow sun

A beautiful sweeping story of two sisters caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire world.

Letters to family members, 1799

Four letters dated March 11, 1799, written from debtors' prison ("Debtors' Apartment") in Philadelphia. Includes descriptions of his life in the prison and fellow prisoners.

Letter from William Abbot to William Tudor,

One letter from Tudor’s Phi Beta Kappa brother thanking him for a visit to Rockwood and commenting on the deportment of his sisters, as well as the progress his brother John was making at Harvard.

Letters from Benjamin Vaughan,

Six letters in which Vaughan writes about prominent scientists, artists, and musicians, such as violinist Louis Ostinelli and engraver Jacob Perkins. Other topics include social interactions with Tudor’s sisters Delia Tudor Stewart and Emma Tudor Gardiner, and Emma’s husband, Robert Hallowell Gardiner.

Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

al- Bustān fī dhikr al-awliyāʼ wa-al-ʻulamāʼ bi-Tilimsān

taʼlīf Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-mulaqqab bi-Ibn Maryam al-Sharīf al-Malītī al-Madyūnī al-Tilimsānī ; wāfaqa ʻalá ṭabʻihi wa-iʻtaná bi-murājaʻati aṣlihi Muḥammad ibn Abī Shanab.

Cild-i evvel min kitab-i Meşahir ün-nisa

Mehmed Zihni.

Kitāb-i Khayrāt-i ḥisān

az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.

al- Manhaj al-aʻdal fī tarjamat al-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah ʻAlī al-Ahdal wa-baʻḍ mashāhīr dhurrīyatihi wa-atbāʻihi wa-aṣḥāb hādhā al-Sayyid al-Akmal

taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Bārī al-Ahdal ; qad ihtamma bi-ṭabʻihi wa-nashrihi ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Ahdal.

Hādhihi Tarjamat quṭb al-wāṣilīn wa-ghawth al-sālikīn al-ʻārif billāh Sayyidī Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Abī al-Maḥāsin al-Qāwuqjī al-Ḥasanī

min qalam ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Adʹhamī al-Ṭarābulusī.

Semerat ül-fuad fi 'l-mebde ve 'l-me'ad

li-şarih il-Mesnevi Abdullah Efendi.

Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt fī bayān ḥaqāʼiq al-ḥayawānāt

li-muʼallifihi Muḥammad al-Iskandarānī.

Hādhihi nubdhah min al-kitāb al-musammá "Niḥlat al-labīb bi-akhbār al-riḥlah ilá al-habīb"

li-Abī al-ʻAbbās Sīdī Aḥmad ibn ʻAmmār.