Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690): Annotated Bilingual Edition

In 2009, 319 years after its publication and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation on the work, Jose F. Buscaglia was the first 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 Ramirez who was shipwrecked on Herradura Point in the Coast of Yucatan 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. 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.