UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies Program

Prof. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña has a New Book!

Congratulations to Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (Spanish and Portuguese) who published Modernidad y Sociedad Civil: La retórica de Boncompagno da Signa y el nacimiento de la sociedad civil as part of the Editorial Tirant Humanidades. It was published in Valencia, Spain in 2022. The book narrates the work of Boncompagno da Signa, a Florentine writer and professor, and puts it in the context of the arrival of letter writing and the importance of epistolography. Read more about his book here.