Albert Lloret

Rellegint Homenots 2a sèrie més de 20 anys després, em sorprenen aquestes col·laboracions generoses i profitoses gràcies a compromisos polítics o ideològics per interessos comuns (Coromines estudiant amb Menéndez Pidal; F.B. Moll treballant amb mossèn Alcover).

Josep Pla on the publication of the first volume of the diccionari Alcover-Moll.

Josep Pla on the publication of the first volume of the diccionari Alcover-Moll.

Muntar una impremta per publicar un diccionari. Muntar una empresa per finançar-ne la impressió.

Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

"In this essay I will"
- spoilers
- over-confident
- rigid, boring

"In this essay I *might*"
- creates suspense
- nonchalant
- adventurous, fun

First page of Álvarez Gómez's edition of Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_.

In the first article of vol. 8 (2026), Daniel Álvarez Gómez (U Europaea, Andorra) edits and studies Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation into Latin of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_ . doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Miquel Joseph i Mayol fue un impresor y exiliado catalán que publicó un interesante manual de Com es fa un llibre: Diccionari de les arts gràfiques (1979) que incluye un amplio vocabulario técnico en catalán. Resuelve dudas como 'Cuántas letras entran en una línea de composición'

Joan Coromi es sobre l’estudi de les llengües romàniques las EUA.

L‘estudi de les llengües romàniques la universitat americana. Les magnituds han canviat, però el judici és exacte.

Tarta Relena at the Iron Horse (Northampton)

And it just got published! Happy to send along a PDF if you are interested.

doi.org/10.1484/J.VI...

YouTube video by NPR Music Tarta Relena: Tiny Desk x globalFEST

I haven‘t listened to their new project, but this was pretty cool: youtu.be/3lwoczostI0?...

Tarta relena concerts, including one in Northampton.

Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Nieves Romero-Díaz (Mount Holyoke College) is. She has also been interested in her SMdA’s archives openpublishing.library.umass.edu/tl/article/i...

Call for paper of Translat Library, volume 8 (2026)

Call for paper of Translat Library, volume 8 (2026)

We are now accepting submissions for volume 8 (2026).

As 2025 draws to a close, let’s take a look at the research Translat Library has published over the past year. 👇👇👇

The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”.

‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Pairs like this are called doublets.

Episode 7 of my series: Catalan.

Next: Galician.

Catalans abonyegats, us ho diuen a vosaltres:

Congrats, Adam!

Cover of Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility.’

Marianne’s passionate letter of puzzled disappointment to Willoughby.

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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months.

We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd

Thank you, Álex!

Thank you, Jim. She deserves all the praise.

Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765: Essential Readings Abstract. This volume contains thirty-four philosophical texts about slavery that were composed in Europe and America between 1500 and 1765. Jointly, these

I translated a couple of texts from 16th-C. Spanish for this anthology on “Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765,“ edited by my colleague in the Philosophy Department, Julia Jorati. The entire book looks terrific. Take a look: academic.oup.com/book/61633

Working on this was a lot of fun! Kudos to @translatlibrary.bsky.social for the wonderful editorial process.

A Fifteenth-Century Warmian Reworking of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine GIOVANNI CASCIO Università degli Studi di Messina ABSTRACT: This article examines a reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s Liber sine nomine transmitted in a group of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscripts of German provenance—namely, Gdańsk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1947; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1260; and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 5354. The article brings to light the mechanisms of this rewriting—in which Italy and the principal Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch’s epistles Sine nomine are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia—as well as its likely ideological aims. The study also considers the possible origin of this textual reworking and the historical and cultural context in which it may be situated. KEYWORDS: Petrarch, Liber sine nomine, Prussia, Warmia, Olsztyn, Textual Reworking, Textual Criticism. The Liber sine nomine (Book without a name; cited as Sine nom.),1 a collection of nineteen letters written from 1341 to the late 1350s but not assembled until the end of 1359 or early 1361

In vol. 7, no. 4, Giovanni Cascio (U di Messina) studies an intriguing reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s "Liber sine
nomine" in which Italy and the main Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch's epistles are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Mésnit - Yásnaya Elena A. Gil: "La mort d'una llengua no és un acte natural" - 3Cat L'escriptora i activista mixe, una nació indígena de Mèxic, acusa els actuals estats monolingüitzants de promoure un nivell de lingüicidi sense precedents arreu del món.

💥Han entrevistat al Mésnit de @3catinfo.bsky.social a Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, autora d'UN NOSALTRES SENSE ESTAT!

Aquí teniu l'entrevista completa:

Margit Frenk (1925-2025). La riada del canto popular A lo largo de los años, la mexicana desplegó toda la potencia de la buena filología para recuperar lo que cantaba el pueblo entre los siglos XV y XVII, desde rondas de amor a cantares de faena

Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida

Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
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