Selected writings of Andres Bello / Andres Bello ; translated from the Spanish by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas ; edited, with an introduction and notes by Ivan Jaksic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bello, Andrés, 1781-1865, author.

Contributor:

Jaksic, Ivan, 1954- editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Library of Latin America.

Library of Latin America

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 1998

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's civil code, launched several periodicals, wrote prodigiously on a vast array of subjects, and implemented important educational reforms.Available here in English for the first time, the Selected Writ

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Note on the Author and the Editor; Chronology of Andrés Bello; Preface; Notes on the Sources and the Translation; Introduction; I Language and Literature; El Repertorio Americano: Prospectus; Allocution to Poetry; Ode to Tropical Agriculture; La Araucana, Don Alonso de Ercilia y Zúñiga; A Short Essay on the Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing; Notes on the Advisability of Simplifying and Standardizing Orthography in America; Orthography

Prologue: Ideological Analysis of the Tenses of the Spanish ConjugationSpanish Grammar; Prologue: Grammar of the Spanish Language; Notes to Part I; II Education and History; On the Aims of Education and the Means of Promoting It; The Study of Jurisprudence; Latin and Roman Law; Address Delivered at the Inauguration of the University of Chile; Address Delivered at the Opening of the Colegio Santo Tomás; Report on the Progress of Public Instruction for the Five-Year Period, 1844-1848

Commentary on "Investigations on the Social Influence of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial Regime in Chile" by José Victorino LastarriaCommentary on "Historical Sketch of the Constitution of the Government of Chile during the First Period of the Revolution, 1810 to 1814" by José Victorino Lastarria; The Craft of History; Notes to Part II; III Government, Law, and International Relations; Letter to Servando Teresa de Mier; American Politics; Monarchies in America; On Relations with Spain; American Congress; Letter to Antonio Leocadio Guzmán; Principles of International Law

Reforms to the ConstitutionObservance of the Laws; Civil Code: Presentation of the Bill to the Congress; Government and Society; Letter to Manuel Ancízar; Notes to Part III; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-993893-8

0-19-534448-0

1-4294-0416-7

OCLC:

784886713