Library memory Montaigne's books and readers in Spain (1580-1700)

This paper tackles the process of reception and appropriation of Montaigne by some sectors of the Habsburg Court at Madrid. In order to do this, it focuses on the study of the origins of the copies of the Essays that have reached us, on the history of the libraries of the period that possessed some printed edition and on the works of those Spanish writers that quoted, either expressly or in a veiled form, some passages thereof.