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Salvage of valuable books and manuscripts from the library of El Escorial during the fire of 2 October 1872, drawing by Vierge, in Le Monde illustré. The French invasion of 1808 constituted a danger for the institution -not for the works- comparable to the great fire, as there was a risk of a great diaspora of the volumes due to the fact that ...
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most important cultural annual event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. [1]
The Royal Household of Spain, officially the Household of His Majesty the King (Spanish: Casa de S.M. el Rey), is the constitutional body whose primary function is to provide aid and support to the King of Spain in the exercise of his royal duties and prerogatives. [1]
A year later, women were allowed access to the library for the first time, after a petition from writer Antonia Gutiérrez was granted by Queen Regent Maria Christina. [3] During the 19th century, confiscations, purchases and donations enabled the National Library to acquire the majority of the antique and valuable books that it currently holds.
Marquisate of Casa Real (Spanish: Marqués de Casa Real) is a title of the Spanish nobility. The title was granted on 8 November 1760 to the existing viscount of San Jerónimo to Francisco García de Huidobro, Life-Treasurer of the Royal Mint of Santiago de Chile and Knight of Santiago. [1]
Jaime Lorente was disclosed to have been cast as Ángel Cristo in December 2021 while Belén Cuesta was disclosed to have been cast as Bárbara Rey in February 2022. [7] [8] On 11 May 2022, Atresmedia reported the beginning of shooting and disclosed a number of additional cast members (including the actors set to portray Juan Carlos and Sofia). [9]
The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading (Portuguese: Real Gabinete Português de Leitura) is a library and lusophone cultural institution, is located in Luís de Camões Street, number 30, in the center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is listed by the State Institute of Cultural Heritage.
La casa (Spanish: "The House") is a 1954 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Mujica Lainez. [1]It tells the story of a family living in a stately Buenos Aires mansion from the heyday of Argentina's oligarchy in the 1880s to some time in the post-1946 period, the era of Peronist populism, seen typically as incarnating the end of History, the crisis of modern civilization.