Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)

Annotated Bilingual Edition

Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, José F. Buscaglia-Salgado

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780813593074
• eBook ISBN: 9780813593098
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: History

In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, José F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez, who was shipwrecked on Herradura Point in the Coast of Yucatán on Sunday September 18, 1689. This first bilingual edition of the Infortunios/Misfortunes reports the findings of almost two decades of sustained research in pursuit, on land and by sea, of a most elusive historical character who was, as we now can attest with all degree of certainty, the first American known to have circumnavigated the globe. Captured by pirates, shipwrecked, and eventually rescued and sent on his way, this is one man's story of his unanticipated voyage around the Early Modern world. With transcription, translation, notes, maps, images, and critical essay by Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado, this Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative study on a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• About This E-Book
• In the Footsteps of Alonso Ramírez: Two Decades in Pursuit of the Most Elusive American Pirate
• List of Illustrations
• Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez
• Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez
• The History of the First American of Universal Standing: How Alonso Ramírez, a.k.a. Felipe Ferrer, Turned the World on Its Head by Circumnavigating the Globe
• Acknowledgments
• Previous Editions
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editor