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Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain: A Bilingual Edition

Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain: A Bilingual Edition

de Guevara, María

Paperback

Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe

Spainish & Portuguese HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226140814
ISBN13: 9780226140810
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.65 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
During a pivotal point in Spanish history, aristocrat María de Guevara (?-1683) produced two extraordinary essays that appealed for strong leadership, protested political corruption, and demanded the inclusion of women in the court's decision making. Treaty gave Philip IV practical suggestions for fighting the war against Portugal and Disenchantments counseled the king-to-be, Charles II, on strategies to raise the country's status in Europe. This annotated bilingual edition, featuring Nieves Romero-Díaz's adroit translation, reproduces Guevara's polemics for the first time.

Guevara's provocative writings call on Spanish women to bear the responsibility equally with men for restoring Spain's power in Europe and elsewhere. The collection also includes examples of Guevara's shorter writings that exemplify her ability to speak on matters of state, network with dignitaries, and govern family affairs. Witty, ironic, and rhetorically sophisticated, Guevara's essays provide a fresh perspective on the possibilities for women in the public sphere in seventeenth-century Spain.

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