Jesús del Campo

In Aguafuertes, Jesús del Campo paints a vivid portrait of the Baroque era, a time when the air smelled of gunpowder and the seas of spices. Each of these extraordinary vignettes—costumbrista in tone yet drawn with the precision of a historian—transports us to a period whose passions and violence did not hinder the presence of eroticism and love. Within its battles and intrigues, one can glimpse the eternal "dance of mortals along the treacherous paths of life." Peasants, explorers, wandering musicians, soldiers, merchants, spies, and idle nobles populate this kaleidoscopic narrative, offering a portrait of humanity in all its light and shadow.

“In del Campo’s hands, even at a distance of several centuries, these men and women of the Reformation are recognizably like us.” David Lorenzo-Cardiel, Times Literary Supplement