El sueño del gramático

In 1465 Antonio de Lebrija, a young high school graduate from Salamanca, traveled to Italy to learn classical Latin and immerse himself in Greco-Latin culture. There he will find uncorrupted ladies, feigned gentlemen, extravagant aristocrats, fabulous libraries, disturbing artists, cabinets of curiosities and wisdom duels between wit and charm. From Italy he will return as Elio Antonio de Nebrija, the humanist who brought modernity to Spain and who will battle theologians, jurists, historians and doctors still rooted in medieval knowledge. It will not be an easy task since he will suffer the rancor of the powerful and the persecution of the Inquisition because of his criticism of the Vulgate, the canonical translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome. Despite the grievances and losses, the teacher will lead a revolution in knowledge, turning Spanish into the most advanced of the vulgar languages ??by setting its rules in The Art of Castilian Grammar, published in the miraculous year of 1492. After a life of duels and sorrows, his daughter Francisca de Nebrija reviews her father's itinerary with the eyes of one of those puellae doctae (wise girls) that emerged during the luminous and brief Spanish Renaissance. The Grammarian's Dream tells the story of an intellectual hero who lives through the birth of humanism in Italy, the printing revolution and the surprising Spain that discovers the New World.