Clorinda Donato is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, where she holds the George L. Graziadio Chair for Italian Studies and directs the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. She is an eighteenth-century scholar who researches knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations. She also works on gender in medical and literary accounts. She has published 'Enlightenment Spain and the Encyclopédie Méthodique',(OSE, 2015:11) with Ricardo Lopez. Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press is Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830, co-edited with Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

Reviews‘ce travail veut être une contribution à l’étude d’une ‘géographie des Lumières’' et du regard des nations éclairées sur les autres nations, aussi bien que des réponses de celles-ci à ces regards.’Dix-huitième siècle

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to the translations1. Clorinda Donato, Introduction. ‘Espagne’ or ‘España’? Answering Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia metódica, the Spanish translation of the Encyclopédie méthodique2. ‘Espagne’, by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers‘Spain’, by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers. Translated by Clorinda Donato and Ricardo López3. ‘España’, by Julián de Velasco‘Spain’, by Julián de Velasco. Translated by Clorinda Donato and Ricardo López 4. Biographical notes5. Brittany Anderson-Cain, Locating encyclopedic knowledge in the global eighteenth century: a bibliographical essayBibliographyIndex