#cervantes — Public Fediverse posts
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@ElPamplina "...y así, del poco dormir y y el mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro..." #Cervantes
Yo... :ablobcatwobfast:
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«La mejor salsa del mundo es el hambre.» — Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
Cuatro siglos después, sigue siendo verdad: no hay ingrediente que iguale a llegar a la mesa con ganas. Después de un día de playa, de monte o de fiesta de pueblo, hasta el pan con tomate sabe a gloria.
Feliz sábado y feliz día de la Asunción para quien lo celebre 🌞
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Heroismus in aussichtsloser Sache – Von Filosofaxen
Die Lektion von Don Quichotte heute
Liest man manche Zeitdiagnosen, erscheint die Zukunft ungewisser denn je. Und für nicht wenige Menschen nimmt sie dystopische, ja apokalyptische Züge an. Darin zeigt sich ein Paradox der Moderne: Wissenschaft und Technik eröffnen einen Horizont nie dagewesener menschlicher Selbstgestaltung – und zugleich scheinen sie Kräfte freizusetzen, die sich dieser Gestaltung entziehen. Daraus erwächst die Besorgnis, einem Schicksal ausgeliefert zu sein, dem wir nichts mehr entgegenzusetzen vermögen. – https://kaeser-technotopia.blogspot.com/2026/08/heroismus-in-aussichtsloser-sache-die.html
#Apokalypse #Artikel #Cervantes #DonQuichotte #Filosofaxen #Heroismus #kaeserTechnotopiaBlogspot #News #Zukunft -
¿Sabían que el famoso bálsamo de Fierabrás que aparece en las páginas de Don Quijote de la Mancha proviene en realidad de las leyendas medievales francesas sobre caballeros y reliquias sagradas?
En el capítulo 10 de la primera parte de la novela escrita por Miguel de Cervantes en 1605, el hidalgo Don Quijote le describe a su escudero Sancho Panza las propiedades de este líquido milagroso, asegurando que bastaba con beber un par de gotas para sanar instantáneamente cualquier cuerpo herido o partido a la mitad. Cervantes no inventó el nombre de esta medicina, sino que lo tomó directamente de los cantares de gesta del siglo XII, donde Fierabrás aparecía como un gigante pagano que custodiaba los restos del ungüento usado para sepultar el cuerpo de Jesucristo. En el relato español, el protagonista intenta recrear la fórmula mágica utilizando ingredientes comunes que tenía a la mano en una venta, mezclando aceite de oliva, vino, sal y romero en una olla de barro cocido. La preparación casera provoca fuertes vómitos y sudores fríos en el caballero y su sirviente debido a la indigestión, mostrando de forma satírica el fuerte contraste entre los mitos de la literatura de caballerías y los efectos físicos reales de las pócimas rurales de la época.
— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso
Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot
#datocurioso #DonQuijote #Literatura #Cervantes #Historia #Libros #Mitos #España
Mägo de Oz - El Bálsamo de Fierabrás (Lyric Video Oficial) | LA LEYENDA DE LA MANCHA - YouTube
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@IoannesEnsis @Bettie +1 que aquí todo Dios quiere ser #Cervantes. Hasta el culo ya de que todo dios haga presentaciones de libros sobre sus "experiencias". Pocos libros malos se queman de cuñaos que se los entoligan a vecinos y amigos... :ablobcatwobfast: Lo de plantar un libro y hacer un árbol está sobrevalorado :ablobcatpeektrash:
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#APasionArte: El #Quijote, el primer Reality Show 📕📘🎵 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2026/05/apasionarte-el-quijote-el-primer.html Te invito a escuchar el programa de #radio sobre #ElQuijote de #Cervantes como un #RealityShow acompañado con música de #Teleman sobre sus personajes
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#APasionArte: El #Quijote, el primer Reality Show https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2026/05/apasionarte-el-quijote-el-primer.html Te invito a escuchar el programa de #radio sobre #ElQuijote de #Cervantes como un #RealityShow acompañado con música de #Teleman sobre sus personajes
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Desde #MotadelCuervo (#Cuenca), acabadas ya las V Jornadas Cervantinas "Juan Haldudo", un poema de José Jiménez Lozano dedicado a #Cervantes, titulado "El manco chistoso", perteneciente a su poemario Esperas y esperanzas.
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Esta ha sido mi ponencia en las V Jornadas Cervantinas «Juan Haldudo», #MotadelCuervo (#Cuenca), 24-25 de abril, celebradas este año bajo el lema «#Cervantes renace en La Mota».
#Literatura #Narrativa #Novela #RecreacionesCervantinas #JoséJiménezLozano #LasGallinasdelLicenciado
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Tra il 1605 e il 1615, lo scrittore, drammaturgo e poeta spagnolo #MigueldeCervantes dà alle stampe quello che viene ritenuto il primo grande #romanzo della modernità: « #DonChisciotteDellaMancia », uno dei #libri più citati, studiati e amati della #letteratura mondiale.
https://www.illibraio.it/news/narrativa/don-chisciotte-di-cervantes-1494230/
#Cervantes #cultura #lettura #classici #utopia #epicacavalleresca #Spagna
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Puedo demostrar, basándome en sus palabras que Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, era partidario del Software Libre.
"La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad, así como por la honra, se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres."
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes
Segunda parte. 31/10/1615
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"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."
-- First sentence of Cervantes, *Don Quixote*
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Started this morning. Reading notes will be tucked in this thread.#FirstSentences #Cervantes #DonQuixote #Bookstodon #NowReading
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“The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, / But of wisdom: no clock can measure.”*…
Our problems are so vast, our distance from them so great. Benjamin Cohen asks how we navigate our “derangement of scale”?
… Parents say the days are long but the years are short. Sophocles says time eases all things. Thoreau says time is but the stream we go a-fishing in. Einstein tells us time is an illusion. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that. All of them are right.
A human life can be 70, 80, maybe 90 years. The tuataras, a New Zealand reptile, can live to be 100, as can a crocodile. A Seychelles giant tortoise can live close to 200 years. Sea animals have us all beat. Bowhead whales can live past 200 years. For some sea urchin species, it’s 300. The ocean quahog clam can live past 500. On the other end are insects. An adult dragonfly might live a week. Shadflies, also called mayflies or fishflies, live just a day or two.
Geological time has an entirely different range of long and short. My friend studies ice cores from millions of years ago, examining glacial variation to better understand how climates change. The Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene. These are epochs, an official scientific term for a measure of time—less than a period, more than an age. Epochs span millions of years. They put our biological lifespans to shame. We are shadflies to the sandstone sediment of the Miocene.
Our current epoch, scientists argue, is called the Anthropocene. It’s new. The term comes from Paul J. Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who wrote that “human activities are exerting increasing impacts on the environment on all scales”—impacts so profound that we created an entirely new stamp on the timeline. The Anthropocene is a commentary on our scales of time as well as space. It isn’t just how old things are or how long they take, but how big they are and how vast their dimensions are.
I’ll admit a little hesitancy for the concept. It’s an audacious move, to declare the dawn of a new epoch from within; I’m not sure if there’s a bit too much modern exceptionalism at work. But I also can’t say the full scientific validity matters for me. Say what you will about the Anthropocene, but I nod to it for trying to gauge what’s so strange and difficult about our moment. It is the relationship between biological generations and geological epochs, between the scope of mortal activity and that of global planetary activity. It is all scales everywhere all at once.
Understanding the significance of our own lives requires some understanding of scale. “Just as the microscope and telescope extended our vision into spatial realms once too minuscule or too immense for us to see, geology provides a lens through which we can witness time in a way that transcends the limits of our human experiences,” Marcia Bjornerud, a geologist, writes. The Anthropocene, she suggests, is a fine time to “adopt a geologic respect for time and its capacity to transfigure, destroy, renew, amplify, erode, propagate, entwine, innovate, and exterminate.” We need to know how to navigate our epoch: to recognize our profusion of scales and strive to understand, amidst their collisions, not just how to care for the world beyond us but how a person can be, what it means to stand as a morally vested individual.
And yet we humans are still not particularly good at seeing ourselves in time or space. I’m certainly not. So here we are. Not only has our age come face to face with an emergency of scalar challenges—brashly called a global climate crisis—but we have produced a daunting sense of distance from addressing it. The problems are physically too far away, too large, too vast; the psychological distance we feel from addressing them is too great. It’s a double-distancing. Hopelessness comes from the scalar mismatch between we individuals, who are wee individuals, and the problems of an 8,000-mile-diameter earth.
All of this was on my mind when I first met Robert Socolow [here], an 88-year-old physicist who, over the course of his life, turned to environmental science and technology to help humanity respond to our most complex challenges of scale. One of those efforts has been with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where Socolow helps with their Doomsday Clock. That’s the device that, since 1947, tracks humanity’s proximity to self-destruction. The clock is a metaphor, presuming to measure Blake’s hours of folly by minute and second hand; the hands are set by “nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, and biosecurity,” among other concerns. They’ve changed positions 26 times in the decades since they began metaphorically ticking. Since 2010, the clock’s hands have only moved closer to midnight.
In 2025, Socolow himself revealed the face of the clock at a press conference in Washington, DC. It was January and he was at the US Institute of Peace in Foggy Bottom. With a crowd of reporters looking on, cameras flashing and shutters digitally clicking, Socolow stood by a modernist wooden stand and spun a turntable to reveal the clock hands at a small, acute angle against midnight. A world of scalar challenges fell into an urgent sort of order. The end was 89 seconds away.
Most of us are daunted, every day, by the vastness of planetary activity and the proximity of our personal choices. We look at the clock, unsure how to balance clashing scopes of time and space. But if I’m unsettled, I want proximity to settle me. I want to be close, I want to feel part of the world I inhabit and see and feel, I want to hold those I love near to me. So what should we do?…
… The confusion may come from what the writer Timothy Clark calls “derangements of scale.” Our experiences as modern global humans, Clark writes, are like being “lost in a small town” and then handed a map of the entire earth for locating yourself and finding your way. In the Anthropocene, he writes, “we have a map, [and] its scale includes the whole earth, but when it comes to relating the threat to daily questions of politics, ethics, or specific interpretations of history, culture, literature, etc., the map is often almost mockingly useless.” Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part of the collective, globe-sized world…
[Cohen shares his conversations with Socolow, with call-outs to Tolstoy, Camus, Augustine, and Solnit…]
… The attempt to capture our smallness inside the grandness of the universe is a timeless human quest, I get that. Tolstoy’s theological view is a typical one; God is that which is without scale. Even if I’m not so theological about it, I share the modern anxiety. And that anxiety is currently a dominant emotion.
Clark writes that “deranged jumps in scale and fantasies of agency may recall rhetoric associated with the atomic bomb in the 1950s and after.” After talking to Socolow a number of times, I don’t think it recalls so much as continues that rhetoric. The new atomic age was a test case for the coming collisions of scale that derange us now. The Doomsday Clock was about sounding the alarm. It was meant to shake people, to grab them by the shoulders and yell that they pay attention to human-made catastrophe.
We’ve flipped in the past 50 years, nearly the exact span of my own life. A half century later, and so many people have gone from urgency to hopelessness. They feel bombarded by all scales, not just the next one.
There’s room to reconsider that bombardment. There’s time to think to the next scale. Socolow has been doing it his entire adult life. So were Augustine and Tolstoy and Camus and so is Solnit. It isn’t new, we aren’t alone.
And so Socolow and I stand in his home office, trying to measure. It’s misty outside and calm inside. He is thinking in linear feet of books, where the spatial scale of distance is a proxy for the temporal scale of his life’s work. I’m thinking in years, measuring my sense of contribution and belonging against the shadfly-like limitations of a mere biological lifespan. I’m cautious, excited, gratified that the two of us can talk and compare across the scales of our current lives. That Blake couplet in the epigraph above [title quote] runs through my head. Socolow’s keenly aware of his own place in our epoch. Nearly a hundred linear feet of a life’s work at an archive, and still, as we consider our various measures, he tells me, “I am searching for ways to be constructive, and there are small opportunities here and there so far.” There is wisdom here, even if no clock can measure it…
Eminently worth reading in full: “By All Measures,” from @longreads.com.
* William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell”
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As we take the long view, we might we might rejoice in the naively and nobly inventive: it was on this date in 1605 that El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (or The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha— aka Don Quixote), the masterwork of Miguel de Cervantes (and of the Spanish Golden Age) and a founding work of Western literature, was first published. Widely considered the first modern novel (published in the Western world), it is also considered by many (still) to be the best; it is in any case the second most translated work in the world (after the Bible).
Original title page (source) #anthropocene #Cervantes #crisis #culture #DonQuixote #history #MiguelDeCervantes #philosophy #problems #wisdom -
Nel 2026 la #BancaCentraleEuropea sceglierà il design della prossima generazione di banconote in euro. Per la prima volta si pensa di superare le immagini astratte di ponti e archi per valorizzare figure reali della storia europea: da #LeonardodaVinci a #MarieSkłodowskaCurie, passando per #Beethoven e #Cervantes.
L’obiettivo? Rendere le banconote più vicine ai cittadini e celebrare l’eredità culturale condivisa dell’#Europa, raccontando chi ha contribuito a costruire il nostro 1/n
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Une installation artistique de Solimán López, inaugurée au siège de l'Institut #Cervantes à #Madrid utilise l'#IA pour "réécrire" des passages de Don Quichotte sous des angles contemporains, tels que l'écologie, les questions de genre.
La pièce centrale de l'exposition est une sculpture interactive capte l'énergie du vent (le mouvement de l'air) et la transforme en données numériques. Clin d'œil au chapitre des moulins à vent de Don Quichotte
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#DonQuijote no puso reparos al #burro de #Sancho 🐎📚 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2025/11/apasionarte-animalario.html Un paseo por obras que nos invitan a reflexionar sobre la relación con los animales y su evolución. Con #JRJimenez, #Cervantes, #Neruda, #Clarin, #ETAHoffmann, #Rossini, #Handel, #SaintSaens, #Gofre @radiovozdelcondado
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Goldgrube für Freunde der gepflegten — will sagen werbeunterbrechungsfreien — #Unterhaltung per #Hörspiel.
#Klassiker von Douglas #Adams und #Balzac, über #Cervantes, aber auch schräger #Scifi mit Stereo-Effektricksereien…
https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:44f79edae172a862/
https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:44955ab76e9fee77/
https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:publication:818164364aef1878/
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Schon angemeldet beim #Cervantes-Institut? Angehörige romanistischer Lehrstühle in Deutschland bekommen über den FID #Romanistik einen Cervantes-Ausweis mit dem Sie direkt auf die elektronischen Ressourcen (E-Books, Zeitungen, Datenbanken…) zugreifen können. Hier steht, wie‘s geht und was es bringt: https://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2025/10/01/neues-angebot-des-fid-bibliotheksausweise-der-cervantes-institute-fuer-romanistinnen/
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#year1580 (1/2) :
- Royaume indo-musulman de Golconde : début règne Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (cf 1512 1611).
- Empire catholique d'Espagne sous Philippe 2 -> l'espion-écrivain Miguel de #Cervantès prisonnier/enfermé par les corsaires barbaresques dans les bains d’Alger depuis 5 ans est libéré après paiement rançon de 500 ducats -> quitte Alger -> débarquement à Dénia (province d’Alicante) -> Valence -> Madrid (cf 1527). -
#year1571 (1/3) :
- Cité de Florence -> texte institue quartier réservé à la minorité juive intitulé Ghetto.
- Grèce : Méditerranée Golfe de Patras -> bataille de Lépante durant 4h = affrontement #guerre navale entre les flottes ottomane de Selim II et chrétiennes avec galères de la Sainte-Ligue de la coalition = Empire espagnol de Philippe II + ...“plus grand événement qu’aient vu les siècles”.
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I’d be as good a king of my estate as any other King; and being so, I should do as I liked; and doing as I liked, I should take my pleasure; and taking my pleasure, I should be contented; and when one’s content, there’s nothing more to desire; and when there’s nothing more to desire, there’s an end of it.
[Tan Rey seria yo de mi estado, como cada uno del suyo: y siendolo, haria lo que quisiesse: y haziendo lo que quisiesse, haria mi gusto: y haziendo mi gusto, estaria contento: y en estando uno contento, no tiene mas que dessear: y no teniendo mas qu essear, acabose.]Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist
Don Quixote, Part 1, ch. 50 [Sancho] (1605) [tr. Cohen (1950)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cervantes-miguel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cervantes #donquixote #MiguelDeCervantes #contentment #desire #fulfilment #king #license #power
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Cervantès, un influenceur à la Renaissance
Par Maxime Lerolle
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/cervantes-un-influenceur-a-la-renaissance
#écrivain #Cervantès #Espagne #Naples #France #littérature #Renaissance #histoire #bibliothèque -
#ElQuijote: time for #Cervantes Room