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Looking through various annotated versions of Borges' work I have not encountered any discussion of this remark. I believe, however, that it refers to the Greek style of doing mathematics. The ancient …

As the question notes, the change from mester de juglaría to mester de clerecía marks a change from an oral tradition to a more formalised written genre. The terms are certainly well used in Spain - a …

This verse form, versos de cabo roto ("verses with broken ends") was reputedly invented by the poet Alonso Álvarez de Soria at the beginning of the seventeenth century, around the time when Quixote wa …

I completely agree with green_ideas' answer, but I think that there are a few points, some of which have been highlighted in the comments, which it would be useful to address. As green_ideas notes, th …

This describes one of Loynaz's Poemas sin Nombre, a collection of her poems published in 1953. None of the poems are given titles, but are simply assigned a roman numeral. Poem XXXV begins: Como una …

Mistral's 1922 collection, Desolación ("Despair") is divided into seven parts: Vida, La Escuela, Infantiles, Dolor, Naturaleza, Prosa, and Prosa Escolar. In the Prosa Escolar ("School Prose") section …

I have recently completed reading the complete Don Quijote in Spanish, together with occasional forays to both the Ormbsby1 and Rutherford 2 translations to help with the interpretation of some of th …

The description of the books in the original Spanish reads as: ... cada libro es de cuatrocientas diez páginas; cada página, de cuarenta renglones; cada renglón, de unas ochenta letras de color negro …

Gabriela Mistral was very familiar with classical works of Greek literature. Apart from the Bible, she said that she found most inspiration from Shakespeare, Calderón [often called "the Shakespeare of …

Gabriela Mistral did not only write poetry. She also wrote prose, and two of her works revealed her admiration for the Catholic Saints, Santa Catalina de Siena and Santa Teresa de Avila - or in Englis …

It may not be possible to completely disentangle all of the factors which lead to the young Lucila Godoy Alcayaga to use a pseudonym. Probably there were several different influences at work. She is o …

Yes, the reference here is almost certainly to Saint Veronica. In Catholic tradition she was a woman who encountered Christ on his way to Calvary, and offered him her veil so that he could mop his fac …

The short answer to the question is that we don’t know who or what killed Don Justo. It is one of the unanswered questions that Rulfo leaves us with. This corresponds to the third interpretation given …

As the OP noted, this quote does not appear in Don Quijote de la Mancha by Cervantes. It does, however, appear in a different version of Quijote: the musical based on Cervantes' work, with libretto by …

The parents of Sui Yun are Cantonese, and emigrated from to Peru as part of the Chinese diaspora. Sui Yun was born in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, forming part of the so-called “Tusán community”, th …