What pliegos are
A pliego is a folded sheet. For centuries it was also how texts travelled outside the book: ballads, news or recipes on a few sheets, read before the book or alongside it. Alessandra, the novel’s protagonist, writes like that: in pliegos.
What arrives here
Petriolo Notebook: the places of the novel (the baths of Petriolo, Padua, Ferrara), with maps and the sources of the time.
From the Library: the medieval medical texts we transcribe and translate on the website, under an open licence, and what they tell.
Other Alessandras: real works that lost the name of whoever made them.
Short notes on the Latin of the manuscripts and, from November, the call for copyists.
These are the Letters in English. The Spanish edition, Pliegos, is at pliegos.elprotocolodelasninfas.com.
The novel
El Protocolo de las Ninfas · El Libro de Alessandra is the story of a woman who could not sign her work, and of what she paid to protect it. It is written in Spanish and unpublished: finished and registered, and looking for an agent and a publisher. More at elprotocolodelasninfas.com. Letters does not serialise the novel: you get the opening, and after that one letter a month about her world.
Who writes
Carlos Rodríguez Morales, a writer from Alicante, Spain. He has worked in information systems and cybersecurity for twenty years: his trade is keeping things locked to all but the right people.
What it costs
Nothing. Letters is free. When you subscribe you get the opening chapters of the novel, in a provisional English translation, and a guide to eleven folios of the manuscript.
Rights
The texts in Letters are by Carlos Rodríguez Morales. The Library’s transcriptions are published under a CC BY 4.0 licence, and the images of the manuscripts under the licence their library gives in each caption.
