Fierro favoured slightly over hierro/yerro after vowel in early modern Spanish?
It sounds better.
Category: Poets
Lithos by Xavier Cugat at Brok
See him marry Rita Montaner! empathise with his doggies! buy me a print!
Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?
The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.
Spain and the correct relationship between man and dog
Away with those canine metaphors! More Cela in translation!
Les pervertis de Santander
Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?
Some thoughtful football commentary
Daily Mail confuses Rudyard Kipling with George MacDonald Fraser
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Why they didn’t find Lorca
Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.
Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;
