Buy this book on-line OSBORNE, ROGER: : The DREAMER of the CALLE de San SALVADOR: Visions of Sedition and Sacrilege in Sixteenth-Century SpainLONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,2001. ISBN 022406052X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around photographic colour artwork detail (from 'View and Map of the Town of Tledo' by El Greco) illustrated dw/dj,with white and silver lettering to front and to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges although very slightly toned are generally bright and clean without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' top corners,though an accidental lower corner creases to consecutive pp37-40 - otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xvipp+1-252pp [paginated] includes author's preface,35 chapters each covering one of Lucrecia's dreams/visions,acknowledgements,sources an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,9pp contents list/table,title separator page and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
Spell-binding,horrific,poetic, apocalyptic,heart-rending,disturbing, prophetic,seditious,compelling and utterly fascinating - the dreams of Lucrecia de Leon have lain virtually undisturbed in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition for more than four hundred years.
Lucrecia was a nineteen-yer-old Madrilena when,in 1587,her dreams began to be recorded and published by a disaffected group of clerics.Over the next three years they transcribed four hundred of Lucrecia's dreams which they considered to be messages from God.The dreams warned of the defeat of the Armada,of the death of King Philip II,of the fall of Spain and of a new beginning under a new king - all told and highly original visions.
As some of her prophecies came true and as the Spanish court grew more discontented,she fell foul of the authorities and was arrested by the Holy Order.
'The Dreamer of the Calle de San Salvador' produces thirty-five of Lucrecia's most captivating dreams.The imagery and inventiveness of her visions are astonishing,while the stories that they tell are compelling and of immense historical significance.Roger Osborne weaves a commentary through the eyes of Lucrecia and helps us to understand the nature of her visions and the time and place she inhabited.This pioneering work shows us what history is like seen from the inside out.
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