Ignacio Lopez

Ignacio López Alemany is Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Teatro y diplomacia en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro, 1640-1746 (University of Valencia, 2022). He has edited the libretti of two operas by José de Cañizares and Giacomo Facco, Las amazonas de España (1720) and La hazaña mayor de Alcides (1723) (Iberoamericana, 2018). He is the author of the monograph Ilusión áulica e imaginación caballeresca en El cortesano de Luis Milán (UNC Press, 2013). Along with Jason McCloskey, he co-edited the volume Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World (Bucknell UP, 2013 [reprinted in 2017]). He is also co-author, with J. E. Varey, of El teatro palaciego en Madrid: 1707–1724. Estudio y documentos (Tamesis, 2006). He was editor of Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (2012-2021).