"In the end, perhaps concerned about this, whether Eros is present. Drawings by Giulio Romano did not drive Love is still love what is happening in each of them, while in the sonnets of Pietro Aretino not seen or a signal is sensed, however brief, of his presence. "

Prolog of Jose Saramago to this issue.

Part in shades of bright Italian Renaissance, recovered a burst of explicit eroticism and is according to insult annoying Lea: the Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) master lampoon, palace intrigue and exhibitionism, who dips his pen between libel and an ambiguous defense of absolute freedom. Aretino, aware of his personal power, surrendered to popes and emperors and ended up promoting a legend of power and badness. Moving away now possible tendentious interpretations, we reproduce the only complete copy of the XVI century editio princeps of the Sonnets on "XVI modes".

The work of analysis, annotation and translation of texts conducted by Professor Paul Luis Avila, poet and professor of Spanish language and literature at the Università degli Studi di Tornio, will allow us to finally fruir in Spain of all original literary complexity this work.

We completed this year with the unpublished text, written for the occasion, the Nobel laureate Jose Saramago: Image and the Word.