Ramón María del Valle Inclán wrote about the need to discover "the arcane of things that seem vulgar and are marvelous". This will occur to those who contemplate some pieces of the exhibition installed in the Library Services of the University of Navarra that, with the degree scroll of "Relaciones de sucesos. Information, propaganda and social discipline in the printing press guide", can be visited daily until March 10th. Those who know something about topic will enjoy it because it will broaden their perspectives on it, and those who are not familiar with it because they will discover a whole world around printed matter, to which little attention was paid until a few decades ago.

Organizing a exhibition requires pieces that make visible and didactic the purpose pursued. It also requires a person sufficiently expert, capable and prepared to make these works speak in certain contexts, with an iter that provides the necessary synthesis so that the visitor feels challenged, understands, comprehends and learns from what he has before his eyes. Ortega said that "to be surprised and amazed is to begin to understand something".

The magnificent printings of the Archive of the Library Services of the University of Navarra allowed this sample, with ease. The organization and the texts that explain it, in its different sections, have run to position of the double doctor Javier Ruiz Astiz, from Navarre and currently professor at the University of A Coruña, who has an excellent curriculum, specialized in Social and Cultural History of Navarre in the XVI-XVII and XVIII centuries, as well as in everything that surrounds the printers and books of the centuries of the Ancient Regime. He is an expert with a deep and scrutinizing eye -both in depth and in form-, and has been able to present the printed works adequately, giving them the prominence they deserve, making them speak. In the work of preparation, photography and design he has counted on the financial aid of María Calonge, Inmaculada Pérez and Sara Satrústegui.

Although visit can be visited virtually(https://www.unav.es/Library Services/fondoantiguo/hufaexp41/), contemplation in situ is, without a doubt, the best option.

The content of exhibition is explained in five main sections, namely: an approach to a singular genre publishing house , the typographic and material characteristics, the purposes and themes, the pan-European context of the phenomenon and the germ of journalism. There is also a bibliographical section , always necessary for those who want to know more, with the authors and titles of reference letter.

It is not difficult to imagine anyone who knew how to read, in past centuries, giving satisfaction to friends and family with what was collected in the so singular genre publishing house, giving satisfaction to curiosity about events of all kinds, serving as entertainment and also to generate states of opinion. The topics were varied and for all tastes: feasts, miracles, moralizing stories, extraordinary events, singular births, storms, catastrophes of all kinds subject, earthquakes, floods, plagues, battles and travels, together with the great festive events of the European courts and the canonizations of saints.

Those reports of events survived until the beginning of the 19th century as a means of transmitting news. Authors, translators, editors, publishers, printers, booksellers, blind people and peddlers were all part of the information network of those printed documents.

The interest in all those printed publications languished and was surpassed by the consolidation of the periodical press, propitiated by the freedom of the press that was gaining followers throughout the tense 19th century, from the Cortes de Cádiz to 1869. As liberalism gained political ground and newspapers multiplied, relations were cornered and restricted to the most popular, curious and amusing events. Along with other causes that are explained in the texts accompanying the exhibits, it should be noted that, with the triumph of newspapers, the relations definitively ceded the informative space they had monopolized for centuries.

In the degree scroll of this review we have pointed out three verbs: to look, to see and to read, essential to analyze in core topic cultural heritage, in this case some very singular printed material. We know texts by different authors, in which they point out the difference between the act of "looking" and "seeing", attributing to the mass of the population the inability to move from one stage to the other, understanding the perception of works as a true intellectual act, which required judgment and discernment, forbidden to most of the public. The saying "To see, one must look and know" is well known. Regarding "reading", Lope de Vega, when dealing with a biblical episode, stated: "In an image I read this story" and Father Sigüenza, when referring to a painting by Bosch, asserted: "I confess that I read more in this table ..., than in other books in many days". The challenge for the scholar and for the citizen, nowadays, consists of carrying out analyses and plausible readings of works produced in contexts so different from today's and with codes that are often alien to those of our time.

After contemplating, reasoning and learning at exhibition, I close these lines by congratulating its organizers, especially Professor Ruiz Astiz, with a reflection on the enjoyment of cultural assets, made more than two centuries ago by Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, Spanish illustrious: "He who cannot see, cannot feel, and he who cannot feel, does not enjoy. Why so much attendance at the Academies and Museums, when what is in them is neither seen, nor felt, nor enjoyed?