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Rio de la Plata, río de los sueños
This book proposes an original counterpoint, as an art of combining two different melodies, between texts and images. The brief transcribed texts belong, in its majority, to chroniclers of the Indies who narrated, between history and fiction, the conquest of the River Plate, and to foreign travelers who discovered this distant southern regions in the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries. This way, we learn that López de Cómara en 1552 or Ulrich Schmidl in 1567 narrated that in the River Plate and of Solísʺ there were pig-fish and men-fish, or that in 1535 during the founding of Buenos Aires, when Pedro de Mendozaœs expedition was being sieged by Indian and suffering from famine, an Spanish man ate his own brotherœs dead corpse. Or that, centuries later, and English man made a reference to high society womenœs custom in 1825 of taking their baths in the river in front of the cityʺ accompanied...
