Stanford University associate professor Vincent Barletta and two of his students shed light on the interconnectedness of Iberian languages and cultures through the study and translation of over 100 late medieval and early modern lyric poems in Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish.

“Vincent Barletta, an associate professor of comparative literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC) at Stanford, and Mark L. Bajus and Cici Malik, both doctoral students in ILAC, have translated this work and nearly 100 others as part of an effort to create a single representative selection of Iberian poetry from the late Middle Ages and early modernity,” reports Stanford News. “In fact, it was the absence of a text that comprehensively covered 14th- to 17th-century Iberian poetry that led Barletta to begin work on Dreams of Waking, the first such publication of Iberian poetry representing the three main Iberian languages from this era with English translations.”

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