Showing posts with label Francisco Agüera Bustamante. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Francisco Agüera Bustamante...La Portentosa vida de la muerte...1792



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The earliest documented example of skeletal imagery in Mexico’s literary culture is thought to be the etchings accompanying the tragicomic protonovel, La Portentosa vida de la muerte, published in 1792 by Fray Joaquín Bolaños and illustrated by Francisco Agüera


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