De Obras Research Articles

Luis Jiménez's Mustang

Luis Jiménez's Mustang (2008), located at Denver International Airport, was intended to be a welcoming figure as Colorado residents and visitors entered and exited the gateway to the US West. However, this particular work, along with several of Jiménez's earlier public sculptures, prompted public rancor, controversy, and protest. Jiménez is one of the most well-known Chicano public sculptors; however, little scholarly research has been conducted to examine the way in which his work functions in and is received by visitors in the public realm. Applying Harriet F. Senie's methodology of conducting visitor response interviews to examine Jiménez's public sculptures aids in an understanding of why the gap between the artist's intention and the visitor's understanding is so pervasive. Mustang subverts traditional monuments and notions of equestrian statuary in its use of nontraditional materials and subject matter. Many visitors sense the intentionally critical and historical revisionist lens through which Jiménez created his work and therefore feel daunted by it culturally, aesthetically, and spatially. This complex reaction highlights what aspects of US culture are embraced in the public sphere and which elements have received conflicted reactions due to their subject, and the representation of ethnicity in public space. In addition, the site of Jiménez's work forms a crucial part of the content; therefore, the negotiation of space, in which Mustang and some of Jiménez's other sculptures are displayed, informs the debates around installing a work in the public sphere.RESUMEN Luis Jimenéz's Mustang (2008) located at Denver International Airport was intended to be a welcoming figure as Colorado residents and visitors entered and exited the gateway to the American West. However, this particular work along with several of Jiménez's earlier public sculptures, prompted public rancor, controversy, and protest. Jiménez is one of the most well-known Chicano public sculptors; however, little scholarly research has been conducted to examine the way in which his work functions in and is received by visitors in the public realm. Applying Harriet F. Senie's methodology of conducting visitor response interviews to examine Jiménez's public sculptures aids in an understanding on why the gap between the artist's intention and the visitor's understanding is so pervasive. Mustang subverts traditional monuments and notions of equestrian statuary in its use of non-traditional materials and subject matter. Many visitors sense the intentionally critical and historical revisionist lens through which Jiménez created his work and therefore feel daunted by it culturally, aesthetically, and spatially. This complex reaction highlights what aspects of U.S. culture is embraced in the public sphere and which elements have received conflicted reactions due to their subject, and the representation of ethnicity in public space. In addition, the site of Jiménez's work forms a crucial part of the content; therefore, the negotiation of space, in which Mustang and some of Jiménez's other sculptures are displayed informs the debates around installing a work in the public sphere.RESUMO Mustang (2008) de Luis Jimenéz, localizado no Denver International Airport, foi concebido como uma figura acolhedora para os residentes do Colorado e visitantes que passavam pela porta de entrada para o oeste americano. Entretanto, essa obra em particular, juntamente com várias das primeiras esculturas públicas de Jiménez, provocou rancor público, controvérsia e protestos. Jiménez é um dos escultores públicos chicanos mais conhecidos; no entanto, pouca pesquisa acadêmica foi conduzida para examinar a maneira pela qual seu trabalho funciona e é recebido pelos visitantes na esfera pública. A aplicação da metodologia de Harriet F. Senie de conduzir entrevistas com visitantes para examinar as esculturas públicas de Jiménez ajuda a entender por que a lacuna entre a intenção do artista e a compreensão do visitante é tão generalizada. Mustang subverte monumentos tradicionais e noções de estatuária equestre em seu uso de materiais e temáticas não-tradicionais. Muitos visitantes percebem a lente intencionalmente revisionista crítica e historicamente através da qual Jimenéz criou seu trabalho e, assim, se sentem intimidados culturalmente, esteticamente e espacialmente. Essa complexa reação destaca quais aspectos da cultura norte-americana são adotados na esfera pública e quais elementos receberam reações conflitantes devido a sua temática, e a representação da etnia no espaço público. Ademais, o local onde se situa a obra de Jimenéz é parte crucial de seu conteúdo; portanto, a negociação do espaço, no qual Mustang e algumas das esculturas de Jimenéz são exibidas, informa o debate em torno da instalação de uma obra na esfera pública.

El texto del Primero sueño. Transmisión, editores, retos de la edición crítica

This article delineates the history of the text of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero Sueño. It gives an account of the possible manuscript transmission of the poem, of its first printed edition within the Segundo Volumen de las Obras de sor Juana, published in Seville in 1692, and of the various Spanish editions which, until 1725, reproduced the poem. This study also provides information about editors who played an important role in the textual transmission of the Primero Sueño during the 17th century, such as Juan de Orúe y Arbieto and José Llopis. Furthermore, it addresses the topic of the editors who, during the 20th century, questioned the accuracy of the old volumes’ text, made editorial decisions about it, and offered their own editions of the text. These editors, and the publication dates of their editions, are as follows: Ermilo Abreu Gómez, 1928; Alfonso Méndez Plancarte, 1951, and Alberto Pérez Amador, 2015. Finally, this article indicates some basic principles that should be taken into consideration when creating a critical edition of the Primero Sueño, and discusses some of its loci critici.

Narrativas de milagres

Este artigo analisa alguns exemplos registrados no Manuscrito 01, que se encontra na Seção de Obras Raras (OBR), da Biblioteca Central do Estudante (BCE) da Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Intitulado, na tradição bibliotecária da UnB, como Flos Sanctorum, trata-se na verdade de narrativas de milagres e de vidas de “santos padres”, cuja produção data, provavelmente, do século XIV, realizada em âmbito monástico, no norte de Portugal. O corpus conta com 143 exempla e milagres, devidamente assinalados sob forma de rubricas. O principal sentido que se pretende destacar dos exemplos selecionados é o da justiça divina que, como um truísmo, manifesta-se em todas as narrativas. Entretanto, as lógicas pelas quais essa justiça se realiza são oriundas da experiência política e social terrena, o que termina por sacralizar o poder profano.

Genetic diversity in natural populations of Colossomamacropomum in the Brazilian Amazon region and in populations farmed in Northeast Brazil based on ISSR markers

The tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is a fish native to the Brazilian Amazon region and is an important species for the local aquaculture industry. In this study, genetic diversity of four tambaqui populations was assessed using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers. We tested 140 specimens, 64 of which were collected from two fish farms located in the State of the Bahia from BAHIA PESCA S/A ((BA); 33 from Cachoeira-BA and 31 from Dias d’Avila-BA), 46 from the Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra Seca (DNOCS) in Pentecoste in the State of Ceara (CE), and 30 from a wild population in Jurua River in the State of Amazonas (AM). Thirteen markers were used to test genetic structure and diversity. A total of 184 amplifieds were produced, 157 of which were polymorphic. The ratios of polymorphic loci varied across the four populations, with lower polymorphism in the population from Cachoeira-BA (54.35%) and higher polymorphism in the population from the Jurua River (79.35%). The indices of heterozygosity (H) and Shannon (I) were similar among the farmed populations and were lower than those in the natural population. Lower values were observed in the population of Cachoeira-BA (H = 0.1726; I = 0.2606), and the highest values in the Jurua River populations (H = 0.2404; I = 0.3643). Analysis of molecular variance revealed the highest variation occurred within populations (61%) and the difference between populations was low (39%). We concluded that compared with the wild population, farmed populations had lower genetic diversity and that genetic information must be used in future management schemes to improve genetic population structure.

ESTUDO DAS VAZÕES E ESTIMATIVAS DE INUNDAÇÕES NO BAIXO-AÇU-RN

O Nordeste brasileiro é associado a episódios de secas, entretanto é muito comum esta região ser acometida por eventos hidrometeóricos extremos com vários dias consecutivos de chuvas que resultam em inundações, não se restringindo apenas ao litoral, podendo ser até mesmo corriqueiros na região semiárida, dependendo das condições meteorológicas em determinado período. No estado do Rio Grande do Norte a principal causa para o acometimento de tais episódios de inundações foi derivado de fenômenos hidrometeóricos extremos, sobretudo a montante do Rio Piranhas-Açu. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar a modelagem hidrológica para diferentes períodos de retorno (5, 10, 50 e 100 anos) para se estimar as cotas de inundação na região do Baixo-Açu a partir do estudo das vazões do rio Piranhas-Açu. A modelagem foi elaborada a partir do levantamento de dados secundários junto ao Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra as Secas (DNOCS, 2012) e simulação hidrológica, utilizando o software HEC-versão 3.5. A modelagem mostrou que, até mesmo as cheias resultantes de vazões para períodos de retorno de baixo tempo de recorrência (5 e 10 anos), inundam grandes parcelas de áreas..

Evolución de las revistas de arquitectura y construcción en España

Con motivo del 70 aniversario de Informes de la Construcción, se realiza un breve recorrido por las revistas de construcción aparecidas desde mediados del siglo XIX, en que empezaron este tipo de publicaciones, hasta la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Se agrupan en tres grandes periodos: segunda mitad del XIX; de 1901 a 1936; de 1940 a 1950. Se mencionan sus nombres, sus responsables, sus objetivos principales y sus años de edición, destacando dos como más permanentes; la Revista de Obras Públicas y Arquitectura, cubriendo los dos grandes campos de actividad en el sector. Se menciona la aparición de Informes de la Construcción en 1948, como publicación que logra conjugar el diseño arquitectónico con sus soluciones constructivas (arte formal y arte técnico), inspiración clara de la mente de Eduardo Torroja. Finalmente, se alcanzan la conclusión de que “Informes” es la consecuencia lógica de la evolución de las revistas de Arquitectura y Construcción hasta ese momento.

Granular sub-ballast compaction control methods in high‐speed railway lines. Spanish experience

Abstract In recent years, the Spanish Geotechnical Laboratory of CEDEX (Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras Publicas) has developed a series of geotechnical studies and monitoring techniques for ADIF (the Spanish Railway Infrastructure Administrator). Within this framework, this paper describes the work carried out by CEDEX, testing several sections to compare different control equipment, in order to study new methods of control of the degree of compaction and deformation modulus of the sub-ballast that may become alternatives to the static load plate test, currently included in the specifications of ADIF. The equipment and techniques included in the testing campaigns are: static load test (300 and 600 mm), nuclear method contrasted with sand-cone test for the determination of density and water content, portancemetre, dynamic load test with 300-mm plate (HMP light test equipment), and dynamic load test with 600-mm plate (Dynaplaque). Thus, the suitability of the sub-ballast compaction control tests currently included in the specifications of ADIF has been evaluated. Except for the density determination tests, the results obtained show a time evolution of the parameters registered. This study allows drafting a proposal of prescriptions for the control of the sub-ballast compaction with high-performance dynamic equipment. Future research lines aim to study the observed phenomena. The results point out the need to experiment in other railway sections so as to confirm and generalize the conclusions of this study.

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Eve E. Buckley

Reviewed by: Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Eve E. Buckley Christian Brannstrom Eve E. Buckley Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. vxiii + 279 pp. Table, maps, photos, notes, references, and index. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4693-3430-2). Why, in spite of the actions of federal agencies through dozens of projects over the past several decades, does human suffering from drought in Brazil’s northeastern region persist? Why did recurring drought in the semi-arid sertão kill thousands through starvation and disease, and force thousands more sertanejos into work camps, or worse? Interpretations have coalesced around the “drought industry” view (p. 4), first articulated by Brazilian journalist Antônio Callado, who argued in 1959 that northeastern elites “industrialized the drought” and enriched themselves through dam, reservoir, and transport projects that federal agencies implemented during the twentieth century in response to recurring drought (p. 199). The perverse outcomes of the “drought industry” were noted by Anthony Hall in his classic Drought and Irrigation in North-East Brazil (Cambridge, 1978) and received attention from many Brazilian scholars, such as Darcy Ribeiro, who noted that drought aid reduced resilience of sertão inhabitants and “added a water monopoly” to the assets of powerful landowners (p. 40). Technocrats and the Politics of Drought is about federal bureaucracies and the “drought technocrats” (p. 3) who built dams, reservoirs, roads, and irrigation projects that failed to make discernable reductions in the vulnerability of rural inhabitants to drought. Eve Buckley’s book does not attempt to overturn the “drought industry” paradigm for the sertão; rather, the book focuses on the engineers and agronomists who ran the bureaucracy and supervised the work sites. Through her reading of institutional archives in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, and Fortaleza, especially correspondence between field engineers and agronomists with their superiors, Buckley aims to offer a “more complex and nuanced” reading of the “drought industry” by showing that engineers and agronomists “exhibited [End Page 219] genuine sympathy” for the retirantes (drought refugees) and showed “profound distaste for Brazil’s chronic inequalities” (p. 4). She argues that drought technocrats “were not … uncaring instruments of an industrializing state” but rather they “were misled by their naïve beliefs that science and technology could resolve problems that were political” (p. 6), meaning the unequal access to food, land, and water that produced drought vulnerability. Buckley provides national political context for understanding actions of the leaders of the drought bureaucracies, which evolved from the Inspectoria de Obras Contra as Secas (IOCS; Inspectorate of Works to Combat Droughts, created in 1909) to the Inspectoria Federal de Obras Contra as Secas (IFOCS; Federal Inspectorate of Works to Combat Droughts), and then Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra as Secas (National Department of Works to Combat Droughts; DNOCS) and the Superintendência de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (SUDENE; Superintendency for Northeast Development, created in 1959). She focuses on the leaders of these agencies, their educational backgrounds, and their priorities. Special attention is devoted to Celso Furtado, the leader of SUDENE and one of Brazil’s most prominent twentieth-century intellectuals. Furtado viewed drought vulnerability as a symptom of social inequality and marginalization and supported land redistribution around reservoirs as a solution to the drought problem. The 1964 military takeover in Brazil sent Furtado into exile and criminalized the idea of seeking drought relief through land redistribution. The analysis of Furtado’s land redistribution plan for the sertão, the last substantive chapter in the book, complements an earlier chapter on early-twentieth-century public health knowledge of the northeast. A public health survey of the northeast led by Belisário Penna and Arthur Neiva in 1912, three years after IOCS was established in 1909, supported the argument that sertanejos’ suffering resulted from disease, illiteracy, and marginalization, not racial degeneration, as Penna and Neiva’s contemporaries argued. Penna and Neiva’s interpretation was not put into practice in the drought bureaucracies, which were focused on dams, reservoirs, and roads. The core argument of the book is not why the dam-reservoir program succeeded, but that...

The water resource: ethical?

The current and projected impact of the use of water resources is based on data from numerous researches committed to the sustainability of the environment and focuses on the current crisis that is experienced by the good management of the hydric resource that the planet has and that is of vital importance for the life and development of the human species. seen and analyzed from the ethical point of view and how this resource is handled, vital for the survival not only of the human species.As the years go by, it will become more scarce, affecting primarily human development and the survival of the planet. These new forms will generate economic trends but an ethical background is very well used that will never be bad. If there lies a more systemic approach, we must not stop acting well, withouthaving to resort to alternatives that give us anxieties that are conditions for opportunists.Today, even with the mediation of international agreements, it has become increasingly difficult to comply with the goals formulated to return to such conditions that allow the survival of man and satisfy with it the principle of responsibility formulated by Hans Jonas: “Obra de tal modo que los efectos de tu accion sean compatibles con la permanencia de una vida humanaautentica en la tierra” (Rama, 2009).

Translating John V. Murra’s ‘The Economic Organization of the Inca State’ into Romanian as ‘Obra DE Amor’

Abstract This paper addresses one of the first translations of a US anthropological monograph into Romanian. Its author, John V. Murra (1916–2006), born into a Russian-Jewish family in Odessa, grew up in Romania, where he studied and became involved in the Communist movement before his departure for Chicago in 1934. His 1956 PhD thesis in anthropology at University of Chicago on the Inka state was a first step towards turning Murra into an influential figure in the field of Andean anthropology. His sister Ata Iosifescu lived in Romania and translated his PhD thesis into Romanian, published in 1987 as Civilizaţie inca: organizarea economică a statului incaş(Inka Civilization: the Economic Organization of the Inka State). Based on their correspondence kept at the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), I propose to reconstruct this translation’s story: the context, the constraints and the process of translation itself. I am also addressing the question of the book’s reception in Romania.

Genetic basis of Colossoma macropomum broodstock: Perspectives for an improvement program

Tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum (CUVIER, 1818), is the most farmed fish in Brazil. Endemic to the Amazonas and Orinoco basins, it is currently raised in all Brazillian regions. The lack of basic genetic information on tambaqui broodstock has been one of the problems of improvement programs in the species. The goal of this study is to provide information on the genetic basis of tambaqui broodstock from six fish farms located in three different regions of Brazil for application in improvement programs. Thus, genetic analyses were conducted using 15 microsatellite loci. We observed that the broodstock of Biofish (NortB), Prosperidade (NortP), and Tajá (NortT) presented loss of genetic variability. However, their genetic diversity values are higher when compared with the broodstock from the AquaBrasil (improved, NortA) project, Brumado (SoutB), and Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra a Seca (DNOCS) (NorthD), respectively. Furthermore, the broodstock of DNOCS needs to be renovated or increased, and the AquaBrasil individuals need to be better evaluated to verify the improvement achieved in the improvement program. Thus, aimed at the improvement of tambaqui production in the fish farms analyzed, we recommend increasing the population size of the broodstock to avoid inbreeding.

Efeitos da Seca em Perímetros Irrigados no Semiárido Brasileiro

Setting up irrigated perimeters (IP) in the northeastern semi-arid of Brazil was an necessary attempt on development agricultural activities in a reality where water is the main limiting factor and the most problematic on account of the irregularities of the climate and droughts. This work aimed to measure the impact of the extensive drought of 2010 through 2015 on the production of 13 irrigated perimeters in the State of Ceara, identifying the most impacted crops and perimeters. In this regard, the data of the irrigated perimeters executive synthesis, publicized by DNOCS (Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra as Secas - DNOCS) with numbers of agricultural production of six years assessed, were systematized. In addition, meteorological data of pluviometry, sourced by Funceme (Fundacao Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hidricos - Funceme) and data of water storage volumes of the main reservoirs of the State, sourced by Cogerh (State Company of Water Resources Management) on the data of the rainfall State Water resources management company. The State’s agricultural productions of the irrigated perimeters raised until 2014, when the water’s collapse resulted in rationing and a whole decline in production. The IP, such as Ema, Forquilha, and Quixabinha suffered a substantial decline in production since the early years of drought, which reached a total collapse in 2014, for in the case of the Ema.

La edificación en madera en el sur de Chile. Historia de una tradición cultural y su recuperación en un caso: Casa Procelle I

En el marco de la investigación bibliográfica acerca de la arquitectura patrimonial de la Región de los Ríos, proyecto de puesta en valor, organizado por la Dirección de Arquitectura del Ministerio de Obras Públicas, que tuvo por objetivo final, compilar y graficar todos los elementos de contenido patrimonial tangibles e intangibles, relacionados con el territorio, durante los años 2009-2010, se extrae parte de esa investigación que viene a dar luces sobre una secuencia de eventos asociativos, también llamado herencia cultural, sobre la edificación histórica de la zona sur de Chile, y que en general se disocia en los grupos culturales que ocuparon el territorio Mapuche-Williche, Español y el Alemán. Esta investigación pretende dar luces sobre esta evolución pluricultural de la arquitectura, basada en un ecosistema específico y adaptado a una dinámica terrestre como son los sismos y tsunamis. Este proceso lo veremos finalizado en una edificación declarada hoy Monumento Histórico Nacional en el marco de la edificación en madera. Sin dejar de destacar que la arquitectura lígnea es parte de una tradición constructiva de más de catorce mil años de evolución, y que hoy, en la primera decena del siglo XXI, está en un acelerado proceso de extinción.

Consumir la <em>obra de terra</em>. Los orígenes de la cerámica valenciana por el lado de la demanda (1283-1349)

Los orígenes de las vajillas cerámicas valencianas, uno de los productos más codiciados de la Baja Edad Media, se han explicado tradicionalmente desde el punto de vista de la oferta. El interés por los aspectos tecnológicos y estilísticos —productivos— ha tendido a eclipsar las cuestiones que van más allá de los objetos, que afectan al punto de vista del consumidor: ¿hasta qué punto fue clave la demanda de obra de terra de la propia sociedad valenciana en el inicio de su producción? Este artículo valora esta cuestión a través de una muestra de 232 inventarios de bienes de entre 1283 y 1349, sobre los que se aplican los análisis cuantitativos propios de la historiografía del consumo. Se argumentará que, antes de la Peste Negra, el consumo de vajillas cerámicas presentaba enormes desigualdades en el seno de la sociedad medieval, y que el peso de su demanda recaía sobre un sector social particular de la ciudad de Valencia. Se propondrá además que era el factor de la moda, y no el del coste, el que no sólo explique este consumo restringido, sino la posterior popularización de estos productos.

Beckett, um brasileiro: o teatro beckettiano no Brasil do século XXI

A recepção brasileira da obra de Samuel Beckett entrou o século XXI animada por uma profusão de montagens, estudos acadêmicos e novas traduções. A recente montagem de Fim de jogo, com Renato Borghi e Élcio Nogueira dirigidos por Isabel Teixeira; o espetáculo Moi lui, adaptação do romance Molloy para o palco, com Ana Kfouri, dirigida por Isabel Cavalcanti; e a série de performances, encenações e debates intitulada Ocupação Sozinhos Juntos, concebida e dirigida pelos Irmãos Guimarães, são três excelentes pretextos para pensar as condições e consequências da apropriação da obra beckettiana no contexto local e atual, propósito deste artigo.Palavras-chave: Samuel Beckett, Teatro, Recepção, Beckett no Brasil.Abstract: When considering Beckett’s reception in Brazil, one must sound at least a bit like Caliban. The necessary perspective is of one completely seduced by, yet at the same time rather suspicious and resentful of the compelling power of a master’s voice, even if not one’s master’s voice. How to avoid being converted into an echo chamber of such a prestigious, precise and alluring architecture of ruins? Is it at all possible not to be completely swallowed by his work, to read Beckett’s plays and prose from an interested, active, unusual point of view, but still preserve the spirit of his poetics, so strictly connected to the flesh of revolutionary form? So this paper concentrates on the twenty-first century century reception of Beckett in Brazil, namely, giving an account of three very recent local productions of his work: Isabel Teixeira’s Fim de jogo (Endgame); Isabel Cavalcanti’s Moi lui (based on Molloy); and Fernando and Adriano Guimarães’ Ocupação Sozinhos Juntos, all of them fully accomplished examples of the challenges involved in staging Beckett in a peripheral cultural context.Keywords: Samuel Beckett, Theater, Reception, Beckett in Brazil.

Prevalence of cubital tunnel syndrome among dock workers, Saint Sebastian, São Paulo, Brazil.

Ports play a substantial role in the Brazilian economy.Despite the large number of port workers, few studies report that the most common musculoskeletal disorders among them involve the upper limbs, including carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff syndrome, cervicalgia and cubital tunnel syndrome.The latter is a neuritis caused by compression of the ulnar nerve at the cubital tunnel (CuTS) on the elbow. To estimate the prevalence of a suggestive diagnosis of CuTS among port workers. Seventy-two independent port workers registered with the Labor Management Organ (Órgão Gestor de Mão de Obra - OGMO), Port of Saint Sebastian, were evaluated based on a semi-structured questionnaire and clinical examination, including investigation of pain on palpation of the middle area of the elbow and two maneuvers specific for CuTS, namely, the pressure provocation and maximal flexion tests. The average age of the participants was 48.49 years old, and their average length in the job 23.13 years.Suggestive diagnosis of CuTS was established for five participants.In only two cases elbow pain had begun before, and in three after starting work at the port. The prevalence of a suggestive diagnosis of CuTS was 6.9%, and was higher among the participants with longer length in the job (over one year).

La literatura medieval hispánica en la imprenta (1475-1600) eds. by María Jesús Lacarra y Nuria Aranda García

Reviewed by: La literatura medieval hispánica en la imprenta (1475-1600) eds. by María Jesús Lacarra y Nuria Aranda García Emily C. Francomano Lacarra, María Jesús, y Nuria Aranda García, eds. La literatura medieval hispánica en la imprenta (1475-1600). Valencia: Universitat de València, 2016. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-84-370-9998-9 This volume of essays accompanies the launch of COMEDIC (Catálogo de obras medievales impresas en castellano), an on-line, open-access database (http://comedic.unizar.es) created by the University of Zaragoza's "Grupo de Investigación Clarisel". In their preface to the anthology, María Coduras and María Jesús Lacarra outline the genesis and design of COMEDIC and provide readers with a view of the "back end" of the database, including the structuring of metadata, data management and programming systems used, and design principles of the database. As Coduras and Lacarra explain, the primary objective of the COMEDIC project is to study the transmission, evolution, transformation, and reception of medieval Castilian literature in the advent of print and the century following the incunable period, highlighting the success of certain genres above others, the ability of printers to serve the needs and desires of the market, and the ways in which medieval works took on new meaning as they traveled from one century and printed edition to another. At the time of the volume's publication in 2016, COMEDIC contained bibliographic entries detailing the early print editions of twenty-two medieval works. The database, like many other projects in Digital Humanities, is open to continual expansion and, at the time of this writing, COMEDIC offers bibliographical entries on twenty-four medieval works representing a wide range of genres, including -but not limited to- sentimental fictions, cancioneros, hagiography, and sapiential literature. The twelve essays contained in this anthology are not only a testament to the labor of the COMEDIC team, but also to the kind of work that the database makes possible, as well as the evolution of Digital Humanities projects in the field. Five of the authors take a diachronic view of editions and textual evolution: José Aragüés Aldaz on the Leyenda de los santos, María Jesús Lacarra on the Libro de las propiedades de las cosas, Gaetano Lalomia on the editions of the Spanish translation of Boccaccio's Fiammetta, and María Carmen Marín Pina on the 16th- century editions of Cárcel de amor. Marianela García Sampere's study of the Lo plant de la Verge María shows how the examination of editions over time sheds light on issues of authorship. Tree essays are dedicated to relationships between texts and images: Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua on text and images of vengeance in La estoria del noble Vespasiano, Daniela Santonocito on the woodcuts in the Libro de [End Page 132] montería, and María Sanz Julián on the title pages of the Baladro del sabio Merlín. Josep Lluís Martos and Antonio Moreno Hernández contribute bibliographic descriptions of single editions: a cancionero and the Bellum Gallicum, respectively. Manuel José Pedraza turns to the influence and career of the printer Jorge Coci. While most of the essays relate directly to titles represented in the database and focus on Castilian texts and editions produced in what is today Spain, two essays look at issues of translation and international networks of printers (Gaetano Lolomia, María Sanz Julián, and Manuel José Pedraza), reminding readers that, in the 16th century, the transmission, reception, and evolution of medieval literature from many of the literary traditions now identified by the borders of modern states were transnational as well as diachronic processes. By turning the post-incunable period and focusing on how some medieval works moved from manuscript into print, COMEDIC expands upon the essential bibliographic store of other databases such as PhiloBiblon (http://bancrof.berkeley.edu/philobiblon/). Charles Faulhaber's essay on the history and future of PhiloBiblon provides readers with a concise history of the transition from humanities computing in medieval studies to the advent of the semantic web and Digital Humanities. Troughout, the essays continually...

Uma metodologia de documentação gráfica para uma obra de arte contemporânea: o banco de jardim de Júlio Resende do edifício Parnaso (Porto)

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