Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.

In 2009, 319 years after its publication, José F. Buscaglia was the first to furnish irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of Alonso Ramírez who was shipwrecked in 1689. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative study on a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.