Miguel Zugasti, coordinator of the TriviUN group , presents the book Naufragio y peregrinación, by Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria, at the Academia Peruana de la language .
The Full Professor the University of Navarra reflected on the process of rescuing and update this work written by a Jesuit at the beginning of the 17th century.
On June 4, at the Lima headquarters of the Peruvian Academy of the language, Miguel Zugasti, coordinator of the group TriviUNgroup, explained his editing process for the publishing house Crítica (imprint of the Planeta group ) of the work Shipwreck and Pilgrimagewritten by the Jesuit Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria and first published in 1610.
Professor Zugasti stressed the enormous importance of the bibliographic rescue of this work that has remained hidden for more than 400 years. It is a text belonging to the genre of testimonial and autobiographical writings, which is added to the only other literary piece on a shipwreck of which there is evidence to date: that of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, from the middle of the 16th century.
Shipwreck and Pilgrimage, as Miguel Zugasti explained, reflects the vicissitudes and hardships along the dangerous coast of Esmeraldas (Ecuador) of a young man of about 15 years of age, Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria, a member of a naval expedition that had departed in 1593 from Seville to the Americas and was shipwrecked on the Pacific coast. As the Full Professor wanted to emphasize, it is a novel, stimulating text, full of anecdotes and intrepid adventures.
Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez, president of the Peruvian Academy of language and corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, also participated in the event. Professor Hopkins was in charge of introducing Professor Miguel Zugasti, of whom he highlighted his "philological rigor and splendid research work".
