Eduardo Fernández

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historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices @warburginstitute.bsky.social | «Cerco un paese innocente» https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734

Engraved frontispiece of Johann von Wowern's De Polymathia Tractatio (Leipzig, 1665). A robed figure, shown in profile and straining under the weight, carries on his back a large sphere composed of concentric rings. The rings are labelled with the disciplines of learning: Theologia, Iuris Prudentia, Medicina, Philosophia Practica, Studium Antiquitatis, and Philosophia Theoretica; the innermost triangle bears the words Logica, Rhetorica, and Grammatica. A banner at the top reads Hoc onus hoc opus philologi ("This burden, this work, belongs to the philologist"). Wowern, Johann von. De polymathia tractatio: integri operis de studiis veterum apospasmation [cum praefatione M. Jacobi Thomasii]. Editio nova. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: sumptibus Laurentii Sigismundi Corneri, 1665.
Promotional poster for the international conference "Jesuit Missions in Northern Abyssinia (1557–1632): A Comprehensive Approach," held 4–5 May 2026, under the Progetto di Ateneo 2023 JeMiNA
Poster for a seminar series titled “When Worlds End: Religion and Crisis in Historical Perspective.” The event takes place on March 27, 2026, from 10:30 to 13:00 at Biblioteca G. Dossetti in Bologna and online via Zoom. Speakers include Davide Scotto and Eduardo Fernández Guerrero.
Façade of Sapienza's Filosofia e lettere faculty
Part IV Poems 1931-1936 (TO ERIKA MANN) Since the external disorder, and extravagant lies, The baroque frontiers, the surrealist police; What can truth treasure, or heart bless, But a narrow strictness?
Àvila, juliol del trenta-sis: ell va gravar els seus noms a la muralla. El cel lluent d’estiu el travessaven les bales negres de les orenetes amb les notícies dels primers morts. És l’èpica que em queda: anys més tard, sota la por que vaig sentir d’infant, vaig aprendre a callar i a somiar sentint aquelles veus: Tindràs la teva guerra. Ja no queda ningú dels qui m’ho deien. Mai no he gravat cap nom en una pedra, però tampoc m’ha abandonat la por, perquè la vida m’ha mostrat els rostres dels qui podrien ser els meus assassins.
Dr Eduardo Fernández Guerrero PFSS25\250045 ‘European Translations of African Christianity: Ethiopian Religion through Humanist Writings’ School of Advanced Study, University of London £292,548.00 This project investigates the production and dissemination of knowledge about African Christianity in Europe during the sixteenth century, focusing on Ethiopian Christianity and its representation by European authors. Central to this research is the examination of texts by African Christians, their European translations and adaptations, and the dynamics of their readership: more especifically, the main case study revolves around the Ethiopian writings by Damião de Góis and Ṣägga Zäᵓab on Ethiopian religious practices as a key site for negotiating early modern genealogies of Christian and European identities. Unlike most previous scholarship, which has often focused on diplomatic and geopolitical aspects or individual Ethiopian figures, this project uses religion and ethnography as lenses to explore the transcontinental co-production of knowledge, particularly in the context of the Protestant Reformation and Iberian colonial expansion, thus aiming to recenter African agency in European early modern intellectual history.
Entrance to the Warburg Institute
Emploi vacant 16 juillet 2025 KBR (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) & l’Université de Namur RECRUTENT un(e) docteur(e) dans le domaine de l’histoire des cultures du livre, Moyen Âge – Renaissance (programme FED-tWIN) Projet : HOBBiT – Heritage Old “Belgian” Books in Transition (HOBBiT) : Books and libraries in “Belgian” monasteries of the Windesheim Congregation, 15th – early 16th centuries Nos descriptions de fonction sont rédigées au masculin uniquement pour des raisons de lisibilité. Toutes les fonctions s’adressent de manière égale aux femmes et aux hommes. Nombre de poste(s) : 1
Our good fortune in not being captured, electronically or bodily, now seems to have become a misfortune: Unable to find myself in the sea of images, I feel consigned to the oblivion of history. The evidentiary vacuum becomes especially painful for me now that our relationship is falling apart; seeing our faces together in the historical event which once brought us closer would at least provide some however ineffective consolation. One day, while browsing through the archives in the library, my attention is caught by the following passage in a book: The occupation of Tiananmen Square in late May 1989 by thousands of Chinese students, workers, and other citizens stirred the imagination of millions throughout the world, but evoked far less response from the U.S. government than did the possibility of successfully concluding discussions then under way with the PRC concerning intellectual property protection. The Bush administration’s professed concern about interfering in China’s internal affairs, which supposedly constrained it from pushing with vigor, either publicly or privately, for a peaceful resolution of the occupation of the square, simply did not carry over to intellectual property. Instead, even as tensions mounted between hunger strikers in the square and elders of the Chinese Communist party, the U.S. government repeatedly threatened the PRC with massive and unprecedented trade sanctions if China did not promise to devise legal protection for computer software to America’s liking. And so it was that as the Chinese government spent May 19 putting the finishing touches to the declaration of martial law that was to signal a tragic end to the Beijing Spring of 1989, American negotiators were busy putting their own finishing touches to a memorandum regarding computer software protection.
Screenshot of the Internet Archive search results page for "Bergenroth, Gustav Adolf von." It displays 11 digitized volumes titled Documentos del Archivo General de Simancas
paragraph from Bronisław Geremek, Un inventaire soviétique, in «Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales», XV (1960), pp. 764-66 C'est surtout pour l'Italie que ces archives sont très riches. La correspondance des hommes d'Etat et d'Eglise dans cette section compte plus de 4.700 lettres, parmi lesquelles nous notons en passant : 43 lettres de Frédéric I I Gonzague à Antonio Bagarotto sur la situation à Mantoue en 1529-1531, la correspondance de la famille Veccello, des années 1342- 1610 (122 unités), des Piccolomini (xive-xvie s., 27 unités), des Strozzi (1463-1745, 111 unités), du cardinal Hippolyte d'Esté, etc. Un des plus considérables fonds de correspondance est celui du cardinal Giovanni Morone, qui contient 631 unités, surtout des années 1575-1576 ; la correspondance du cardinal Prospero Santa Croce, des années 1574-1578 contient 201 unités. Parmi les collections concernant les villes italiennes notons celle des actes de Crémone (dont une bonne partie fut publiée en 1937 *) et celle de documents relatifs à l'histoire de Florence, parmi lesquels les brouillons des listes de contribuables de 1465, les documents sur la Monte di Sale et la Monte di Pieta, les archives des Uzzano(53 unités) utilisées par Rutenburg dans ses deux livres et en partie par lui publiées a, le fonds des Medici (177 unités). La collection concernant Venise contient des documents très divers, aussi bien sur le commerce et l'industrie, que sur l'administration de la ville et de la Terre Ferme
A page with the text THE WASTE LAND 1922 Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα Τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: άποθανείν θέλω.'
Old interface showing the scans of the Italian journal Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
A photograph of a book page featuring a quote at the top and body text below. Concorre alla custodia e alla purezza del cuore la lettura dei libri spirituali perché, come dice san Bernardo, il nostro cuore è come un mulino che non si ferma mai e sempre macina quello che vi si mette dentro, se è grano, grano, e se è orzo, orzo. Luis de Granada, Libro de la oración y meditación (1554)
Poster de Szymborska en el café Nowa Provincja de Cracovia
Portrait of Goes with dystichs Gentis Thucydides enarrat gesta Pelasgae, Romana claret Livius in historia. Hic alia ut taceam sera data scripta senecta, Ætiopum accepit nomen ab historia.
"Ogni collasso porta con sé disordine intellettuale e morale. Bisogna creare gente sobria, paziente, che non disperi dinanzi ai peggiori orrori e non si esalti a ogni sciocchezza. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà."
Cover of Allons nous continuer la recherche scientifique by Alexandre Grothendieck, Éditions du sandre