This article shows how public offices in the early modern period became investment assets Castile (Spain). Moreover, it demonstrates that fulfilled all conditions for being viewed as safe assets. In particular, through combination of qualitative sources with a novel hand-collected database, did not suffer from adverse selection, were traded liquid secondary markets, and increased their value du...

I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral Castile, published in the 1514 edition Cancionero general, concerning erotic joust a court lady her six suitors who did not turn up to participate joust. This poem has already been analysed by Ian Macpherson, but take analysis further identify sixth suitor offer more exact timeframe for its comp...