Authors

Francesc Torralba Roselló (Barcelona, 1967) has a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Universidad de Barcelona (with Special Prize for Undergraduate and Doctoral Studies) and is a Doctor of Theology (Facultatde Teología de Catalunya). He is presently director of the Ethos Chair, Universitat Ramon Llull. He has published over fifty books and has received a number of prizes for essays in Catalan. part of his work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and German.

Francesco Tonucci is a researcher at the Institute for Cognition Science and Technology of the Italian National Center for Research (CNR) in Rome. His professional activity has been aimed at studying the thinking and behaviour of children, in family, school and city environments. From 1997 to 1999 he chaired the Committee TV-children. Renowned illustrator, he signs his cartoons as FRATO. Among his books are to be highlighted Con ojos de niño (1987), La soledad del niño (1994) y La ciudad de los niños: un modo nuevo de pensar la ciudad (1996).

Emeritus Professor of psychiatry and medical psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid. An academic at the Royal National Academy of Medicine, director of the Instituto de Psiquiatras de Lenguas Española and president of the European Association with Social Psychiatry. Honorary Professor at the universities of Mexico City, Lima, Havana and Carabobo (Venezuela),  and Doctor Honoris Causa at the universities of Montevideo, Santo Domingo and Maimónides (Buenos Aires).

Francisco de Quevedo (madrid, 1580 - Villanueva de los Infantes, 1645), with his vast culture and noble lineage, is one of the most ingenious writers of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an ambassador in the Italy of Humanism, Gentleman of the Torre de Juan Abad and Gentleman of the Order de Santiago. Notably influenced by Greco-Latin literature and Stoic philosophy, he cultivated Lucianesque satire, wrote political treatises for the kings' regime, theological-moral works, poetry and drama.