Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690) : Annotated Bilingual Edition / Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora; José F. Buscaglia-Salgado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gongora, Carlos de Siguenza y, Author.

Contributor:

Buscaglia-Salgado, José F.

Buscaglia-Salgado, José F., Editor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexican literature--17th century.

Mexican literature.

Explorers--History--17th century.

Explorers.

Latin America--History--17th century.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In Spanish and English.

Summary:

In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, José F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez, who was shipwrecked on Herradura Point in the Coast of Yucatán on Sunday September 18, 1689. This first bilingual edition of the Infortunios/Misfortunes reports the findings of almost two decades of sustained research in pursuit, on land and by sea, of a most elusive historical character who was, as we now can attest with all degree of certainty, the first American known to have circumnavigated the globe. Captured by pirates, shipwrecked, and eventually rescued and sent on his way, this is one man's story of his unanticipated voyage around the Early Modern world. With transcription, translation, notes, maps, images, and critical essay by Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado, this Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative study on a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

In the Footsteps of Alonso Ramírez: Two Decades in Pursuit of the Most Elusive American Pirate

List of Illustrations

Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez

Acerca de la transcripción

Al excelentísimo señor don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza

Aprobación del licenciado don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, capellán del Rey nuestro señor en su Convento Real de Jesús María de México

Suma de las licencias

Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez

About the translation

To the most excellent gentleman don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza

Approval of the licentiate don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, chaplain of the King, our lord, in his Royal Convent of Jesús María in México City

Summary of licenses

The History of the First American of Universal Standing: How Alonso Ramírez, a.k.a. Felipe Ferrer, Turned the World on Its Head by Circumnavigating the Globe

Acknowledgments

Previous Editions

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-9311-5

OCLC:

1125194600