{"product_id":"infortunios-de-alonso-ramirez-the-misfortunes-annotated-bilingual-edition-9780813593074","title":"Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez  The Misfortunes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Buscaglia's Spanish-English edition of Siguenza y Gongora's greatest work is a magnificent illustration of what the fields of history and literature can offer when they are brought together. And it is fun to read, to boot! The text takes readers on a fascinating, whirlwind tour through the interlocking worlds of seventeenth-century Mexico and Southeast Asia.\" -- Camilla Townsend * author of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico *\u003cbr\u003e“Buscaglia-Salgado’s bilingual edition of \u003ci\u003eInfortunios de Alonso Ramirez\/The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution. Multi-faceted and meticulously researched, it situates the story in the context of a global history of empires and piracy, opening new channels for further analysis and research. Deftly deciphering documents in colonial archives, questioning editorial practices, sketching maps, and revisiting his own sailing voyages, Buscaglia-Salgado has tracked Ramírez’s routes, uncovering some of the mysteries surrounding the protagonist and making visible a global historical process.” -- Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones * Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e In the Footsteps of Alonso Ramírez: A decade in pursuit of the most elusive American pirate\u003cbr\u003e Maps and Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez\u003cbr\u003e About the translation\u003cbr\u003e To the most excellent gentleman don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza\u003cbr\u003e Approval of the licentiate [in canonic law] don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, chaplain of the King our lord in his Royal Convent of Jesús María in Mexico [City].\u003cbr\u003e Summary of licenses\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMotives he had for leaving his home country. Jobs [he had] and travels he made through New Spain. Of his presence in México until crossing over to the Philippines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe leaves Acapulco for the Philippines . An account of the route of this voyage and of how he spent the time until he was captured by the English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA summary is given of the plundering and cruelties carried out by these pirates on land and sea until arriving in America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe is set free by the pirates and he remembers what he endured as their captive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlonso Ramírez, and his shipmates, sails without knowing where they were or where they were going. The troubles and frights they suffered until running aground are retold.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThirst, hunger, disease, and death that aggrieved them in this coast. Unexpectedly they find Catholic folk and know themselves to be in Yucatan, on the mainland of North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey go to Tihosuco and from there to Valladolid where they experience hardships. They arrive in Mérida. Alonso Ramírez returns to Valladolid and the hardships are greater. The reason why he came to Mexico City and what resulted from it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003eThe history of the first American of universal standing: How Alonso Ramírez, a.k.a Felipe Ferrer, turned the world on its head by circumnavigating the globe.\u003cbr\u003e The discovery of Americanness and the presage of the end to empire\u003cbr\u003e Consummate impostors always tell the best piratical stories\u003cbr\u003e On motherhood, mentoring and being the best at what you do\u003cbr\u003e How Ramírez stole the name and reimagined the character of Felipe Ferrer\u003cbr\u003e An American con man takes on the English \"King of the Sea\"\u003cbr\u003e Lost at sea, or sailing the West Indies as an Englishman?\u003cbr\u003e The story comes together on the Coast of Bacalar\u003cbr\u003e From pirate to slave owner in search of legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e Putting to paper what \"will be very advisable for the printing press to eternalize\"\u003cbr\u003e Reader beware\u003cbr\u003e If and only \"If\"\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e About the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez\u003cbr\u003e Acerca de la transcripción\u003cbr\u003e Al excelentísimo señor don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza\u003cbr\u003e Aprobación del licenciado don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, capellán del Rey nuestro señor en su Convento Real de Jesús María de México\u003cbr\u003e Suma de las licencias\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMotivos que tuvo para salir de su patria. Ocupaciones y viajes que hizo por la Nueva España. [De] su asistencia en México hasta pasar a las Filipinas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSale de Acapulco para las Filipinas. Dícese la derrota de este viaje y en lo que gastó el tiempo hasta que lo apresaron ingleses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePónense en compendio los robos y crueldades que hicieron estos piratas en mar y tierra hasta llegar a la América.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDanle libertad los piratas y trae a la memoria lo que toleró en su prisión.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNavega Alonso Ramírez y sus compañeros sin saber dónde estaban ni la parte a que iban. Dícense los trabajos y sustos que padecieron hasta varar en tierra.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSed, hambre, enfermedades, [y] muertes con que fueron atribulados en esta costa. Hallan inopinadamente gente católica y saben estar en tierra firme de Yucatán en la Septentrional América.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePasan a Tihosuco [y] de allí a Valladolid donde experimentan molestias. Llegan a Mérida. Vuelve Alonso Ramírez a Valladolid y son aquellas [molestias] mayores. Causa por [la] que vino a México y lo que de ello resulta.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405798187351,"sku":"9780813593074","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813593074.jpg?v=1730493655","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/infortunios-de-alonso-ramirez-the-misfortunes-annotated-bilingual-edition-9780813593074","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}