Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language

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Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco (New Directions) Janet Hendrickson (New Directions)

Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language

Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco (New Directions), Janet Hendrickson (New Directions)

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Norton
31 December 2019

Poetry; Literature: history & criticism

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.

By: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco (New Directions)
Translated by: Janet Hendrickson (New Directions)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 102g
ISBN: 9780811228602
ISBN 10: 0811228606
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 31 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sebastian 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. 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.