Libro de los gorriones

The "Manuscrito" section presents a facsim. reprint of the Libro de los gorriones, the autographic notebook in which Bécquer tried to reconstruct the mss. of his poetry (which was lost during the 1868 Revolution). (He copied into it the Rimas and some prose selections; it is the mss. which, corrected by a group of his friends, served as the basis for the posthumous 1871 ed. of his Obras). Software allows magnification of the image and searches of lexical items. The "Dibujos" section includes reproductions of Bécquer's drawings from the albums he presented to Julia Espín. Also includes a recitation of all the Rimas in the mss. as well as a selection of twenty-eight songs written by composer friends of Bécquer. The "Introducciones" section includes three audiovisual presentations on aspects of Bécquer's life and poetic work.