A Holy Alliance:
Alfonso X's Political Use of Marian Poetry
by Connie L. Scarborough

The political and the religious are intertwined in the Cantigas de Santa Maria which often contain subtle, and not-so-subtle, subtexts within a framework of a collection ostensibly designed to promote Marian devotion.

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Eighteenth-Century Oratory and Poetic Contests in Peru
by Jerry M. Williams

Critics of colonial Latin American letters have long debated whether the literary friendship between Pedro Bermúdez de la Torre y Solier and Pedro Peralta Barnuevo was defined by rivalry. As this book will demonstrate through a study of the authors’ individual and collective works, the spirit of competition was academic, not antagonistic, and this resulted in both poets participating in creative venues that yielded compositions admired by patrons and the public. Writings that they published, both individually and jointly, compliment one another and point more to collaboration than contention. -from the preface
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In his notorious diatribe, La perinola, Francisco de Quevedo chided Pérez de Montalbán to emulate Lope de Vega, Vélez de Guevara and Calderón if he wanted to write good plays. There was never a question as to why he cited Lope and Calderón. Now that reliable editions are available, we can know why Quevedo included Vélez in his triumvirate of theatrical greats.

New Vélez de Guevara for 2010:
EL ALBA Y EL SOL
LA MONTANESA DE ASTURIAS

More than twenty of Veléz de Guevara's most important plays are now available in Cuesta's Ediciones críticas series. They are edited by William R. Manson and C. George Peale, with introductions by prominent guest scholars. Many editions carry the "Approved Edition" rubic granted by the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the MLA.

Transliterating a Culture: Cervantes and the Moriscos
by Carroll B. Johnson, edited by Mark Groundland
is scheduled for release in 2010.