Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable
Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in 15th Century Spain
Biographical note
Luis M. Girón-Negrón, Ph.D. (1997) in Religion, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures also at Harvard. He has published several articles on religion and literature in late medieval and early modern Iberia.
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