The BNE has an important collection of printed matter, generally on cheap paper, with worn types and poor quality inks that are known as "relationships of events" and that were the main vehicle for news throughout the Modern age. Some texts that, together with the news itself, whether related to political or military events, festivities associated with royalty, natural disasters or episodes of an extraordinary nature, have given us a way of understanding the world. The transmission of news and relevant events has been a consubstantial part of human communication for as long as there is evidence of it. However, it was not until the dawn of the Modern Age that a specific way of disseminating that information began to be systematized in an editorial phenomenon that would end up becoming what we understand today as journalism. From the journey of the news from the place of the event to the dissemination centers to the professional composition of texts with informative content, passing through their production in printing workshops and their dissemination in booksellers' stalls, the 16th and 17th centuries constitute a key moment in the genesis and evolution of today's newspapers. With this book we can go through and enjoy the "true" news of the Golden Age, with international, national or local developments, military events, social chronicles or sensational cases. Due to the range of topics that the reports of events deal with, the peculiar way of titling the news and the engravings with which they are illustrated, it is attractive for the citizen community in general and, in particular, for specialists in the history of communication and the history of the book, information professionals and bibliophiles.

Texts by Adelaida Caro Martín, Nieves Pena Sueiro, Alfonso Armada, Henry Ettinghausen, Mar Campos Souto, Augustin Redondo, Sagrario López Poza and Nuria García Abia.

ISBN 978-84-92462-75-9.