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designed for English-speaking students. Both parts, Parts 1 (1605) and 2 (1615), of
are included in this single volume, introduced and annotated by Tom Lathrop. The text includes Lathrop’s
which was previously only available separately.
, students had to use editions of
published in Spain for Spaniards. Vocabulary and syntactic structures that are difficult (or impossible) for students are usually not annotated in those editions. Cultural information which educated Spanish speakers already know, but students simply do not, is equally not annotated. Students have thus been deprived of much of what they need to know in order to understand the text.
, Lathrop has included 10,459 vocabulary glosses in the margin opposite the line where the Spanish word to be defined appears. If too many words need to be put in the margin, phrases are translated in footnotes. In all, there are 3,742 footnotes. These also deal with cultural items, historical, geographical, biblical, mythological, textual references, and all kinds of other information. Footnotes will not offer interpretations: that is for instructors and their students to figure out.
–includes all the marginal glosses again at the back of the book, compiled for easy reference. Previously, Lathrop’s
glosses were available as a separate book, called
. The publisher is pleased to present, for the first time ever, Lathrop’s
included as an appendix to his groundbreaking edition of the
. This edition features many of the 1863 etchings by Gustav Dor谷 and a new cover by Anna Teather.
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