Spanish Emblem Literarure

                The Research Team about Emblem Literature in Spain is integrated in the SIELAE Seminario Interdisciplinar para el Estudios de la Literatura Áurea Española, of the Universidade da Coruña (SPAIN). Their work began in 1992, under the direction of Professor Sagrario López Poza. Thanks to an economical help from the Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Programa I + D) they put on the foundations of the research for the bibliographical storing, the Digitisation and study of the Spanish books of Emblems from XVI-XVIII^th Centuries, task of importance to know the learning of Early Modern Spain, the interrelation between Literature and Art, and the presence of Emblematics in the iconographic programs of ephemeral art dedicated to public festivals in the Renaissance and Baroque Courts of Spain.
            In 1995 the Research Team undertook an amplification of the project with the Databases Laboratory of the UDC, directed by Nieves R. Brisaboa. The two teams (Humanities and Computer Science) worked in collaboration. The Humanities team, constituted by researchers from the areas of Spanish Philology, Art History and Latin Philology, was in charge of the Digitisation, partial transcription and study of a selection of Books of Emblems in Spanish from XVIth and XVIIth Centuries: Spanish Emblem Books (XVI-XVII centuries). Computer Science's team developed the software applications for the storage of the data and the access to them through Internet.
            In 1999 the project was enlarged to the Books of emblems written in other languages and translated into Spanish: Emblem Books Translated into Spanish.
            The achievements of the Research Team is offered through two virtual libraries and a web page:
* Base de datos y biblioteca digital de los libros de emblemas españoles de los siglos XVI y XVII
            (Database and digital library of the Spanish Emblem Books from XVIth-XVIIth Centuries). Accessing to this Virtual Library requires that your computer has installed         the Virtual Machine of Java. If you have not this (last versions of Windows XP and Windows 2003 don't include it) you can discharge it pulsing HERE.
* Biblioteca Digital de Libros de Emblemas Traducidos al español (Digital library of Emblem Books translated into Spanish).
            (This interface and the data it offers are provisional. The group works in the feeding of the database. Manage you keeping these preventions in mind).
* Literatura Emblemática Hispánica - Bibliografía. It offers a constantly up-to-date bibliography on Emblematics and Emblem Books (Repertoires, Editions & Studies, Recent Publications), News of Interest, Links to Other Pages on Emblems, Imprese, Devices, Hieroglyphics, Symbols, Renaissance and Baroque Festivals and Ephemeral Art, Iconography, Relations between Literature and Art...

The creation and maintenance of this web site and the achievements of the research group are bound to the grants and financial support provided by Xunta of Galicia (projects code: XUGA 10403A93, XUGA 10402B95 and XUGA10401B98), the financial support by the National Plan I + D (Commission Interministerial of Science and Technology) -codes: TEL96-1390-CO2-01, TEL1999-0335-C04-01- and the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Investigation, Development and Technological Innovation (I+D+I), Ministry of Education and Science of Spain and the European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER) –codes: BFF2003-03945, HUM2006-07410/FILO and FFI2009-08113 (subprograma FILO).

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Last modified: June 2011.