Fábulas de Principe

Title

en_US Fábulas de Principe

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Spanish

en_US Miguel Agustin Principe

Creator

en_US Freixas, Emilio See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Freixas, E.

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:15Z

en_US 2011-09

en_US 1941

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1941

Abstract

en_US This book is in the same series as my 1939 edition, Fábulas de Tomas de Iriarte. According to Wikipedia, Miguel Agustin Principe wrote Fábulas en verso castellano in 1861-1862. I must admit that I have not heard of him before. My first surprise in looking at this book is the volume of fables that Principe composed. I count 146 fables in the T of C at the book's end. Few of them seem borrowings from traditional fables. One of those few is El Invidioso y el Avaro on 51, and Principe here credits Avianus. Finding this book alerts me, of course, that there are five others books in this fable series. They will not be easy to find! Maybe a good sample fable from Principe is the one pictured at the center of the cover's illustration: El Gato Cortándose las Uñas (18). After child rat sees a cat clipping its nails, mother rat has to instruct her: the more the cat's nails are cut, the more they grow! As in the Iriarte volume, each fable inside has one black-and-white illustration, often involving silhouettes. As I mention there, it is unusual to get a book of fables from this corner of the world at this time! Alas, this book has been in someone's musty basement for some time!

Identifier

en_US 7519 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82785

Language

en_US spa

Publisher

en_US Editorial Molino

en_US Buenos Aires

Subject

en_US PZ74.2.P75 Fab 1941 See all items with this value

en_US Miguel Agustin Principe See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole