Alexandre Cirici Pellicer: El arte catalán

Review of: Alexandre Cirici Pellicer. El arte catalán, Barcelona, Alianza Editorial/Enciclopedia Catalana, 1988, 404 pp

Estrella de Diego: La mujer y la pintura del siglo XIX español (cuatrocientas olvidadas y algunas más)

Review of: Estrella de Diego. La mujer y la pintura del siglo XIX español (cuatrocientas olvidadas y algunas más). Madrid, Cátedra, 1987, 291 pp

Gracián y la política: modelo y teoría de la razón de Estado

[Resumen] El artículo analiza la obra de El Político desde la doble perspectiva del modelo político y de la teoría de la razón de Estado. Tras contextualizar la obra de Gracián se analiza el modelo de príncipe político perfecto en la persona y personaje de Fernando el Católico. Posteriormente se esboza una doctrina de la razón de Estado en función de las empresas que debe acometer un gobernante y en base a las variantes de ésta, al esquema aretelógico y a la prudencia política.[Sommaire] L’article analyse l’oeuvre de El Político à partir de la double perspective du modèle politique et de la théorie de la raison d’État. Après avoir contextualisé l’oeuvre de Gracián, est analysé le modèle du prince politique parfait en la personne et le personnage de Ferdinand le Catholique. Par la suite, s’ébauche une doctrine de la raison d’État en fonction des entreprises qu’un gouvernant doit mener et sur la base des variantes de celle-ci, du schéma aretelogique et de la prudence politique.[Abstract] The author analyzes the work of El Político from the double perspective of the political model and of the theory of the reason of State. After the contextualisation of Gracián’s work, the article goes on to analyze the model of the perfect political prince as embodied in Ferdinand the Catholic. The author next outlines the doctrine of the reason of State focusing on the tasks that a leader has to carry out, while also considering the variants of this doctrine, the arethelogical scheme and political prudence

An Island Called Brazil: Irish Paradise in Brazilian Past

What is the origin of the word “Brasil”? Is there any relation between the naming of the South American country Brazil and the Otherworld place of Hy Brasil – an imaginary island, born in the Celtic mind and cherished in the west of Ireland as an earthly paradise? Does the presence of this phantom island in medieval maps, before the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese in 1500, have any special hidden meaning in the history of cartography? To try to answer some of these questions, embarked on a journey in search of the enchanted island of Hy Brasil, that inspired poets, charmed seamen and tricked cartographers for 500 years. The result of this investigation is the book, Uma ilha chamada Brasil – o paraíso irlandês no passado brasileiro, which gathers many different references scattered throughout space and time about this island. This article is a summary of the book, which was published in October 2004 by Mauad Editora, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.What is the origin of the word “Brasil”? Is there any relation between the naming of the South American country Brazil and the Otherworld place of Hy Brasil – an imaginary island, born in the Celtic mind and cherished in the west of Ireland as an earthly paradise? Does the presence of this phantom island in medieval maps, before the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese in 1500, have any special hidden meaning in the history of cartography? To try to answer some of these questions, embarked on a journey in search of the enchanted island of Hy Brasil, that inspired poets, charmed seamen and tricked cartographers for 500 years. The result of this investigation is the book, Uma ilha chamada Brasil – o paraíso irlandês no passado brasileiro, which gathers many different references scattered throughout space and time about this island. This article is a summary of the book, which was published in October 2004 by Mauad Editora, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sobre l'art de prudència i l'art de l'ocasió (notes sobre el barroc i Gracián)

The article proposes an analysis about the Prudence and the Occasion in the Baltasar Gracián's first works. The Prudence, as knowledge and practical wisdom, is the exercise of the natural reason, not in abstract, but in his concrete and practical application to the experience of the reality. The Occasion is possess the fleeting way since the things happen and appear in the world. Gracián takes elements of the Baroque Thought in order to make them as one's own and to offer an art of Prudence and an art of the Occasion in order that they operate so much the public man (reason of State) as the private man (reason of state of the individual)

Anosov Endomorphisms on the 2-torus: Regularity of foliations and rigidity

We give on the 2-torus a characterization of smooth conjugacy of special Anosov endomorphisms with their linearizations in terms of the regularity of the stable and unstable foliations. This regularity condition is the uniform bounded density (UBD) property, which is the uniform version absolute continuity for foliations