Una larga lealtad

This book brings together the tributes that Francisco Rico has dedicated over the years to authors, philologists or those related to philology towards whom he professes, to put it in the words of Gianfranco Contini, una lunga fedeltà. Read and treat figures of the stature of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Eduard Valentí, Dámaso Alonso, Martín de Riquer, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Manuel and Alberto Blecua, Roberto Calasso, Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Claudio Guillén, José María Valverde, Yakov Malkiel and María Rosa Lida, among many others, has left a deep mark on her life and professional career. The sketches and critical notes in this book, in addition to being a remarkable testimony of gratitude, offer the reader a valuable overview of literary studies in the last five decades.