el nuevo libro verde de barcelona

1638/05/04

A great fire consumes part of the Hospital of the Holy Cross. »
Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.]  »

1638/03/03

You write to me fearful News touching the Revolt of the Catalan from Castile, of the tragical murdering of the Viceroy, and the burning of his House: Those Mountaineers are mad Lads. I fear the sparkles of this Fire will fly further, either to Portugal, or to Sicily and Italy; all which Countries, I observed, [...] »
James Howell (1754). Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestic and Foreign. London: Ware, Knapton, Longman et al.  »


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