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Port of Lisbon. <em>Civitatis orbis terrarum</em> (1572)
Slave minstrels in the royal galley (1572-1591)

In the last quarter of the 16th century, different groups of slave minstrels, made up …

July 4, 2022
<em>Don Juan de Austria</em>. Anonymous (c. 1575)
Instruments and music books for the royal galley (1572)

A document in the Simancas Archive provides us with a valuable testimony in which a …

July 1, 2022
Guidon of the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez in the church of San Vicente
Endowment of a group of minstrels for the Viaticum procession in the church of San Vicente in Seville (1680)

In 1680, Inés Jacinta Manrique, “señora del donadío de la Torre de Quadros”, left in …

June 29, 2022
1. Church of San Cristóbal. <em>View of Granada</em> (1563). Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada.

June 28, 2022

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Songs and dances in Monipodio’s house

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-12-2015

Scene from the musical environment in the house of Monipodio that Miguel de Cervantes recreates in his Novela ejemplar Riconete y Cortadillo.

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Procession of captives (c. 1540)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
13-12-2015

The testimony given by María de Saavedra, in the process of beatification of Fernando Contreras, allows us to document the processions of captives in Seville in the first half of …

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