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José Luis Espejo Pérez

José Luis Espejo Pérez (born in Barcelona in 1965), is a Spanish-language writer specializing in historical essays.

José Luis Espejo Pérez

Biography

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Born in Barcelona in 1965. He has studied the University of Barcelona, obtaining a degree in Geography and History. Between 1985 and 1992 he was editor of the critical magazine L'esborrany, published in Sant Boi de Llobregat.[1] At the same time he worked as an editor in several technical press magazines. Between the years 1992 and 1998 he collaborated in the preparation of three monographs of a social nature in the magazine Arguments and Proposals, published by L'Eina Editorial. Between 1998 and 2002 he lived in the city of Bath (United Kingdom), a period in which he worked as a screenwriter in several audiovisual companies. Previously (in 1994) he spent eight months in the United States. His knowledge of the cultural reality in these two Anglo-Saxon countries brought him into contact with the two subjects he deals with most in his books: Social Reality and Critical History. He returned to Spain in 2002, to dedicate himself to writing historical essay books, among them, El Conocimiento secreto: Los entresijos de las sociedades secretas [2] and Los hijos del Edén: toda la verdad sobre la Atlántida.[3] He made trips to Italy and France (until 2007 and 2008), compiling for 10 years a large amount of documentation on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci . As a result of this research, he published the book: Leonardo: los años perdidos,[4] and later El viaje secreto de Leonardo da Vinci[5] and Los mensajes ocultos de Leonardo da Vinci .[6]

Helena R. Olmo quotes him in her article on the tomb of Gioconda. The television presenter and writer Christian Gálvez quotes him in his novel about Leonardo.[7][8][9] Jesús Ángel Sánchez Rivera alludes to his "picturesque" theses in a work entitled "Seguir la corriente o navegar sobre las olas", published in the magazine Clio: History and History Teaching.[10] He was a contributor to the magazine "Más allá de la Ciencia", in which he specializes in articles with historical content.[11] He is also the author of the two books in the series "Temas de Historia Occulta".

Since 2004, he has collaborated in various works of an audiovisual nature and historical memory with the Municipal Historical Archive of Sant Boi de Llobregat (Museum in the neighbourhoods project), among others in 2011 he published La Atlántida: lo que la ciencia oculta which has exceeded 2,000,000 views.[12]

Content of his work

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Da Vinci coat of arms according to Espejo.[13]

Espejo maintains that Leonardo da Vinci's family were Cathars from Conflent (Oriental Pyrenees), who in 1213 (Battle of Muret) would have emigrated to Tuscany, fleeing the repression of the Church against the Cathar heresy, as would be shown by different facts: that its coat of arms is the same as that of the Crown of Aragon and more specifically that of the Kingdom of Mallorca,[13] that an ancestor of the Da Vinci family (Giovanni Da Vinci) died in Barcelona in 1406, that among his affairs there was "a Catalan cape (or coat)"[14] (a "catalano rosato"),[15] that in the Codex Atlanticus he draws in great detail a Catalan forge or the "circumfulgore " (barge with twelve bombard guns facing each other) saying that "it was built by the people of Maiolica"[16] and that in his paintings, you can appreciate several details more related to Catalonia than to the interior of the Italian peninsula, such as the Ramonda myconi of the Virgin of the rocks of London (typical herb of the Pyrenees) and the margallon of the Virgin of the rocks of the Louvre (typical plant of the Catalan coast), but both being non-existent in Milan and inland Tuscany, which in Leonardo's time had not yet annexed the Duchy of Pisa and only possessed the narrow corridor along the Arno's riverside, which was their access to the port of Livorno (bought from Genoa in 1421).[17]

Espejo explains in his books that Leonardo would have traveled to Catalonia on at least two occasions, residing there between 1481 and 1483 where he would have painted, in Montserrat, "Sant Jeroni", apart from taking notes and drawings that he would have used in La Verge de les Roques and La Gioconda, whose smile would reflect the "expression of the Moreneta's mouth" with the mountains of Montserrat in the background landscapes, while the landscape of the "Annunciation" of the Uffizi Galleries, would correspond to a view of the port of Barcelona .[18][19]

Espejo was the first author to describe (in Spanish) Leonardo's relationship with the authorship of the octant-type projection of the globe (projection used in the world map discovered by Richard Henry Major in the Leonardo papers of the Windsor Library).[5][20] This authorship would be demonstrated by the study of Christoher Tyler,[21] since there is a sketch of it on a page in the notebooks of the Codex Atlanticus made by Leonardo's own hand (in mirror symmetry) on the same page of the Codex which contains the sketches of another eight projections of the globe (those known at the end of the fifteenth century), studied by Leonardo and which range from the conical projection of Ptolemy to the planisphere-type one of Rosselli,[21] (being this the first known description of this projection).[21]

Books

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  • 1.Alto riesgo: los costes del progreso, José Luis Espejo Pérez, Barcelona: Fapa, DL 2004.[22]
  • 2.Leonardo: los años perdidos, José Luis Espejo Pérez, Barcelona: El Andén, 2008.[4]
  • 3. El Conocimiento secreto: Los entresijos de las sociedades secretas, José Luis Espejo Pérez, Barcelona : Ediciones B, 2009.[23]
  • 4.Los hijos del Edén: toda la verdad sobre la Atlántida, José Luis Espejo Pérez, Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2010.[24]
  • 5. El viaje secreto de Leonardo da Vinci, José Luis Espejo Pérez, Barcelona: Editorial Base, 2010.[25]
  • 6.Los mensajes ocultos de Leonardo da Vinci, José Luis Espejo Pérez, Barcelona – Base, 2012.[26]
  • 7.Temas de historia oculta: nuestro pasado robado, José Luis Espejo Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2015.[27]
  • 8. El sueño de Hitler, una pesadilla para la humanidad, José Luis Espejo Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2015.[28]
  • 9.Temas de historia oculta II: Las doctrinas prohibidas, José Luis Espejo Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2016.[29]
  • 10.Ecos de la Atlántida, José Luis Espejo Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2018.[30]
  • 11. Memorias de Leonardo da Vinci, José Luis Espejo Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2019.[31]
  • 12. El árbol de los mitos, José Luis Espejo Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2022.[32]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ L'esborrany
  2. ^ Jose Luis Espejo Perez (14 February 2013). El conocimiento secreto: Los entresijos de las sociedade secretas. B de Books (Ediciones B). ISBN 978-84-9019-179-8.
  3. ^ Jose Luis Espejo Perez (13 November 2012). Los hijos del Edén: Toda la verdad sobre la Atlántida. B de Books (Ediciones B). ISBN 978-84-9019-180-4.
  4. ^ a b WorldCat -Leonardo: los años perdidos
  5. ^ a b José Luis Espejo Pérez (November 2010). El viaje secreto de Leonardo da Vinci. Editorial Base (cat). ISBN 978-84-92437-73-3.
  6. ^ Los mensajes ocultos de Leonardo Da Vinci. Base. 2012. ISBN 978-84-15706-00-7.
  7. ^ Helena R.Olmo
  8. ^ "La-tumba-de-Mona-Lisa" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  9. ^ Christian Gálvez (2 April 2014). Matar a Leonardo da Vinci. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. p. 331–. ISBN 978-84-8365-636-5.
  10. ^ «Seguir la corriente o navegar sobre las olas.
  11. ^ Más Allá de la Ciencia
  12. ^ "La Atlántida: lo que la ciencia oculta". YouTube. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  13. ^ a b Escut d'armes Da Vinci
  14. ^ Leonardo (1 January 1977). The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci. University of California Press. p. 332–. ISBN 978-0-520-03329-0.
  15. ^ Christian Gálvez (2 April 2014). Matar a Leonardo da Vinci. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. p. 144–. ISBN 978-84-8365-636-5.
  16. ^ Leonardo Da Vinci (1970). The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. 2. Courier Dover Publications. p. 260–. ISBN 978-0-486-22573-9.
  17. ^ Richard A. Goldthwaite (13 February 2009). The Economy of Renaissance Florence. JHU Press. p. 413–. ISBN 978-0-8018-9688-0.
  18. ^ "Reflexiones en torno al posible origen de la familia Da Vinci". joseluisespejo.com. 7 May 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  19. ^ "José Luis Espejo: "La Moreneta inspiró a Leonardo da Vinci la sonrisa de la Gioconda"". La Vanguardia. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  20. ^ Major, Richard Henry (1865). Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name of America, now in the Royal Collection at Windsor (pdf). London: J.B. Nicholls and Sons.
  21. ^ a b c Tyler, Christofer (1865). Leonardo da Vinci's World Map (PDF). Londres: J.B. Nicholls and Sons. Archived from the original (pdf) on 23 November 2015.
  22. ^ WorldCat – Alto riesgo: los costes del progreso
  23. ^ WorldCat – El Conocimiento secreto: Los entresijos de las sociedades secretas
  24. ^ WorldCat – Los hijos del Edén: toda la verdad sobre la Atlántida
  25. ^ WorldCat – El viaje secreto de Leonardo da Vinci
  26. ^ WorldCat – Los mensajes ocultos de Leonardo da Vinci
  27. ^ WorldCat – Temas de historia oculta: nuestro pasado robado
  28. ^ – El sueño de Hitler, una pesadilla para la humanidad
  29. ^ – Temas de historia oculta II: Las doctrinas prohibidas
  30. ^ – Ecos de la Atlántida
  31. ^ Xindes, dixibit. "Memorias de Leonardo da Vinci". Editorial Base (in Catalan). Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  32. ^ Xindes, dixibit. "El árbol de los mitos". Editorial Base (in Catalan). Retrieved 14 August 2022.

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