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Queen Isabel and the Spanish Language in the New World*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Alberto María Carreño
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Extract

There are people who are called upon to transform customs and society, but of very few may it be asserted that they have changed the entire world. The remarkable woman, the fifth centenary of whose birth we are celebrating, is one of them.

Daughter of King John II and of Isabel of Portugal, his second wife, she is a warrior par excellence; one might perhaps say that her whole life was a battle in which were intermingled enthusiasms, passion and egoism, and there were also lofty thoughts and high purposes.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 179 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1951

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Footnotes

*

Discourse presented to the Mexican Academy of History in commemoration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Queen Isabel.

References

1 los Ríos, José Amador de: Historia de la literatura Española (7 vols.; Madrid, 1861–1865), VII, 195.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 198.

3 Ibid., p. 202.

4 Ibid., p. 203.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid., pp. 234–235.

7 Ibid., pp. 197–198.

8 Biblioteca de Autores Españoles. Edited by Rosell, Cayetano, Vol. LXX, pp. 256–257.Google Scholar