Alfonso De La Research Articles

Alfonso de la Peña Pineda and the Urology exchange by correspondence

IntroductionIn 1943, the brothers Alfonso and Emilio de la Peña Pineda proposed creating a communication system by correspondence as in North America, an idea welcomed by Spanish urologists, a system that was named the Urology exchange by correspondence. Material and methodsA thorough reading and detailed analysis was conducted of content from 1944 to 1953, with an average of 3 pages of folio size of each copy. ResultA total of 105 issues containing 234 urological presentations were sent, signed by 67 Spanish urologists, 2 Portuguese urologists and 1 general surgeon. Thirty-nine of these presentations were translations of a similar U.S. publication. The subject matter corresponded to curious or rare personal cases, concerning conditions or problems of the most common urological diseases in that era, of which only 20 of those articles stand out. In general, the content is of little use and interest, which prompted the gradual decline in the collaboration until it disappeared. ConclusionThe proposal was answered mostly by those who had a professional relationship with the chair of Urology of the Faculty of Medicine of Madrid directed by Alfonso de la Peña. The subject matter of the personal case studies, most of which lacked importance, lead to the gradual decline in the contribution of presentations until its eventual end. Only a few articles stand out. The study's major value consists of collecting and analysing the content of what is highly likely the only complete collection in existence, given that it was not edited for printing and was distributed only as correspondence and cannot therefore be found in public libraries.

Verdad y mentira en sentido judío ("El Tratado del arte de la lógica" de Maimónides en la "Visión Deleytable")

La Visión deleytable es un libro escrito en clave irónico-esotérica. En este artículo se demuestran básicamente dos tesis: la primera es que Alfonso de la Torre es un autor judío de modo esencial, y su libro constituye una magnífica expresión de marranismo literario y filosófico. Alfonso de la Torre es un judío que se expresa desde el secreto y la ironía. El marranismo y el secreto son dos piezas fundamentales a su vez del pensamiento de Maimónides, de quien bebe este texto en su espíritu filosófico-político. Por todo ello, demostramos que el autor de la Visión deleytable, no sólo es un perfecto conocedor de la Guía de perplejos; la influencia del sefardí va más allá. Así, se demuestra que el libro de Alfonso de la Torre se nutre de otras obras de Maimónides, como el Tratado del Arte de la Lógica; pero también hubo de conocer textos como la Carta de la conversión forzosa o la Carta a los judíos del Yemen.

La edición crítica de "Visión Deleitable": Constitución del texto e historia de la tradición

La Visión deleitable de Alfonso de la Torre fue una de las obras más leídas durante la segunda mitad del siglo XV y su interés continuó hasta el Siglo de las Luces, lo que nos permite reflexionar sobre los fundamentos de un texto crítico y repasar ese inventario de intereses que nos aclaran muchos aspectos de los posicionamientos estéticos e intelectuales durante más de dos siglos. Respecto a la documentación manuscrita, tenemos cerca de una veintena de códices en casi todas las variantes lingüísticas peninsulares del siglo XV, aparte de cinco incunables, uno en catalán y cuatro en castellano, y varias ediciones impresas durante el siglo XVI incluso una en italiano, lo que da fe de la gran demanda que obtuvo la obra del Bachiller.

El concepto de profecía de Maimónides en la "Visión Deleytable" de Alfonso de la Torre y sus fuentes árabes

Muchas de las doctrinas expuestas por Alfonso de la Torre han encontrado su inspiración en la Guía de perplejos de Maimónides e, indirectamente, en algunos autores árabes. Se recuerda aquí la doctrina de la profecía de Maimónides y la de su precursor el filósofo árabe al-Fârâbî y se indica que tanto Maimónides como Alfonso de la Torre pudieron tener también como fuente algunas obras de Avicena.

Maimónides en la "Visión Deleytable": diferencia antropológica, beatitud intelectual y el problema de la materia

Partiendo de los resultados alcanzados por Luis M. Girón-Negrón en su libro Alfonso de la Torre’s Visión Deleytable, nos proponemos ampliar y completar la presencia de la Guía de Maimónides en la obra del bachiller Alfonso de la Torre mediante el examen de una serie de puntos centrales en la Visión, que ponen de manifiesto el sustrato judeoconverso de la obra y su afinidad intelectual con la corriente intelectualista que en los siglos XVI y XVII hallamos en pensadores como Pomponazzi, Bruno y Spinoza.

Maimónides romanceado: Apuntes sobre la "Visión Deleitable" y la recepción de la "Guía" en la España cuatrocentista

En la primera parte de este estudio se ofrece una visión de conjunto sobre la apropiación selectiva que hace Alfonso de la Torre de la filosofía maimonidiana en la primera parte de la Visión Deleytable. Se complementa este análisis con algunas calas comparativas sobre la recepción de Maimónides en la España cristiana tardomedieval, contrastando el papel de la Visión con el de otras dos obras cuatrocentistas de autoría judía o conversa que confrontan el Moreh ha-Nebukhim para beneficio cristiano: la traducción española de la Guía de Pedro de Toledo y las glosas de Moshe Arragel a su Biblia romanceada para don Luis de Guzmán.

Alfonso de la Peña Pineda y el Intercambio urológico por correspondencia

IntroductionIn 1943, the brothers Alfonso and Emilio de la Peña Pineda proposed creating a communication system by correspondence as in North America, an idea welcomed by Spanish urologists, a system that was named the Urology Exchange by Correspondence. Material and methodsA thorough reading and detailed analysis was conducted of content from 1944 to 1953, with an average of 3 pages of folio size of each copy. ResultA total of 105 issues containing 234 urological presentations were sent, signed by 67 Spanish urologists, 2 Portuguese urologists and 1 general surgeon. Thirty-nine of these presentations were translations of a similar U.S. publication. The subject matter corresponded to curious or rare personal cases, concerning conditions or problems of the most common urological diseases in that era, of which only 20 of those articles stand out. In general, the content is of little use and interest, which prompted the gradual decline in the collaboration until it disappeared. ConclusionThe proposal was answered mostly by those who had a professional relationship with the chair of Urology of the Faculty of Medicine of Madrid directed by Alfonso de la Peña. The subject matter of the personal case studies, most of which lacked importance, lead to the gradual decline in the contribution of presentations until its eventual end. Only a few articles stand out. The study's major value consists of collecting and analysing the content of what is highly likely the only complete collection in existence, given that it was not edited for printing and was distributed only as correspondence and cannot therefore be found in public libraries.

Two Iberian Cases of Intellectual Mysticism

Two Iberian Cases of Intellectual Mysticism

The Gothic Novel ‘Curial e Güelfa’: an erudite Creation by Milà i Fontanals

Curial e Guelfa is not a chivalric novel written in the 15th century, but a ‘Gothic’ novel written in the 19th century by its professed discoverer, Manuel Mila i Fontanals. The text reveals a clear portrait of its author: an erudite scholar who had read vastly, from Muntaner’s Cronica to Il Novellino, from Paris e Viana to Petit Jehan de Saintre; someone familiar with the troubadours Rigaut de Berbezilh and Raimbaut de Vaqueiras; an author who had read, among many other works, Fulgentius’ Mitologiae and Enrique de Villena’s Glosas de la Eneida; Alfonso de la Torre’s Vision deleitable, Manrique’s Verses and El cortesano by Luis Milan. The concordances with these works make it evident that the book is a composite imitation by the highly erudite Catalan writer. Moreover, they attest to the fact that Curial e Guelfa can by no means have been written in the 15th century, as no writer could have had all the aforementioned works at his disposal at the time, and it was naturally impossible to read books published after the alleged date of writing of Curial e Guelfa.

Celebrating fifty years of percutaneous renal biopsies in Spain

The first renal biopsies, made as much in adults as in children, were surgical. They were made to patients who were under renal decapsulation with the intention to reduce the kidney pressure, especially in cases of nephrotic syndrome. In 1944, Nils Alwall initiated the accomplishment of percutaneous kidney biopsies by means of a needle and aspiration at the University of Lund (Sweden), although his experience was published in 1952. The first article that had by subject the practice of a percutaneous renal biopsy was written in 1950 by a Cuban doctor, Antonino Pérez Ara, and published in a local journal with little diffusion. The first work that appeared in a Spanish journal (1953) about the practice of the percutaneus renal biopsies was not signed by any Spanish group but by members of the Hospital "Calixto García" of the University of The Havana, Cuba. The first article published in Spain regarding to this subject, saw the light in 1958, now 50 years ago, in the Revista Clínica Española. The two first signers were Alfonso de la Peña Pineda and Vicente Gilsanz García, professors of the Medicine Faculty of Madrid. Later, the practice of the percutaneous renal biopsy became general in other Spanish hospitals.

Primera Bienal de Arquitectura Latinoamericana en Pamplona

The first Bienal de Arquitectura Latinoamericana (BAL) took place in Pamplona in May 2009. It is a new young event promoted by the AS20 research team that aims to show in Spain the most recent and outstanding work of young latin american architects. For the first edition, the selected teams were: Tristan Dieguez and Axel Fridman; Sebastian Adamo and Marcelo Faiden; Nicolas Campodonico; FGMF Fernando Forte, Lourenco Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz; Carla Juacaba; Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen; Grupo Talca –Macarena Avila, Cecilia Cullen, Martin del Solar, Alejandra Liebana and Rodrigo Sheward; El Cielo –Armando Hashimoto and Surella Segu; Pablo Perez Palacios and Alfonso de la Concha; Juan Manuel Pelaez Freidel; Camilo Restrepo; Felipe Mesa; Marcelo and Martin Gualano; Gonzalo Diez Ponce and Felipe Muller.

DERECHO HEREDADO, MONARQUIA ADQUIRIDA: APORTACIONES DEL QUINIENTOS A LA CONFIGURACION DEL REGIMEN POLITICO ESPAÑOL

The defence of marriage on the part of theorists like Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo, Alfonso de Madrigal, «El Tostado» and Alfonso de la Torre, condemning the practice of any form of polygamy is, quite apart from the moral and religious implications, an instrument legitimisation of the ruling government. In this way the theorists of the Spanish renaissance ensured the continuation of the monarchy, and with it the social order of the estates.

Luis M. Girón-Negrón. Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable: Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2001. xvi, 306 pp.

Alfonso de la Torre (ca.1417–60), a person of somewhat obscure background, wrote Visión delectable de la filosofía artes liberales, metafísica y filosofía moral (or Visión deleytable as Girón-Negrón insists) ca. 1440 at the urging of the prior of Navarre, who was close to the crown prince Carlos de Viana. An unusual philosophical work for a Christian author, it does not conform to standard Scholastic doctrine, but is clearly dependent to a very great extent on the Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh nevukhim) of Maimonides. As such, the work, and this detailed analysis of it, is of particular interest to students of Jewish philosophy. At the outset, let it be said that Girón-Negrón has done a thorough and brilliant job in this book, a revision of his doctoral dissertation. He was aided by Jewish advisors in understanding and translating Hebrew texts, but one assumes that, as is the case with many Spanish scholars, his knowledge of Arabic is his own. He also has done an extensive amount of reading in secondary Jewish literature. (There are some errors, nevertheless; e.g., the philosopher Abraham Bivagch, not “Bibago,” did not engage in a “philosophical discussion” with Juan II of Aragón; rather, it was with an unnamed Christian “sage,” and it was a polemical debate, not a philosophical discussion.)

La universidad en el desarrollo de la cirugía torácica española

The present article analyzes the figures of the university professors who, from 1911, formed part of one of the basic pillars in the development of "Spanish Thoracic Surgery". At that time, there was a certain amount of infighting between general and specialized surgery, which was resolved by allowing specialization after a period of training in general surgery. Universities should not be denied the great merit of having produced well-trained surgeons with a broad general foundation who would later choose a specialty. The figures of Ricardo Lozano Monzón, Francisco Martín Lagos, José Gascó, Benjamín Narbona, Carlos Carbonell Antolí, Rafael Vara López, Alfonso de la Fuente Chaos and José M. Beltrán de Heredia with their previous training, corresponding precursors and respective schools are described. Their teaching, surgical practice, and scientific activity are also described. A future article based on the contribution of Valencia to the specialty of general thoracic surgery is also outlined.

The Vision Delectable of Alfonso de la Torre and Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed

The Vision Delectable of Alfonso de la Torre and Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed

The Vision Delectable of Alfonso de la Torre and Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed

The Visión Delectable was composed by Alfonso de la Torre, probably between the years 1430 and 1440, at the request of don Juan de Beamonte, for the instruction of the young Prince Carlos of Viana. This work, which gained its author the epithet of el gran filósofo among his contemporaries, was published about the year 1480 and subsequently appeared in several Castilian editions. It was translated into Catalan in 1484, and into Italian by Domenico Delphini in 1556, without mention of the original author. This Italian version was re-translated into Spanish by a Spanish Jew, Francisco de Cáceres, and published at Frankfort in 1623.