Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language

Sebastián de Covarrubias's famous Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language was first published in 1611, only two years before the author's death. A contemporary of Cervantes, learned in Hebrew and Arabic languages, Covarrubias wrote his encyclopedic dictionary to explore the heterogeneous origins of words and their hidden connections to the moral, transcendental, and everyday meanings of the world. Here, the translator Janet Hendrickson has dived deep into this influential, pre-Enlightenment text to cull a coherent, poetic selection of Covarrubias's pioneering work.

Author: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780811228602

About the Author
de Covarrubias Horozco, Sebastián: - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco (1539-1613) was a lexicographer and chaplain to Phillip II of Spain. His luminous Treasure is the first monolingual dictionary of the Spanish language.Hendrickson, Janet: - Janet Hendrickson is the translator of The Future Is Not Ours, an anthology of Latin American writers born since 1970. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Cornell.