Francisco Rico
Alfonso el Sabio y la "General estoria": tres lecciones.
Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1984. Colección Letras e Ideas. Revised and enlarged second edition. 8434483769 207 pages.
Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings.
Spanish philologist Francisco Rico Manrique (b. 1942), professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 1987, provides a study of the genre and genesis of "General estoria," a universal history written on the initiative of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284), known as el Sabio (the Wise).