| Antonio
de Nebrija was the author of the first grammar of a romance
language: Gramática de la lengua Castellana,
published in 1492, the date of Columbus’ first voyage
to America.
In 1492 Antonio de Nebrija presented his
Grammar to Queen Isabel. Five hundred years later, in 1992,
Professor Alonso Zamora Vicente, President of the Antonio
de Nebrija Foundation, together with the President and other
members of the Board of Trustees, presented a new edition
of the Grammar to Queen Sofia of Spain. |
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