Author:Juan Maldonado

Some books and articles which discuss Maldonado's early Journey to the Moon story are:  "Otros cuatro relatos utopicos en la Espana moderna. Las utopias de J. Maldonado, Omnibona y El Deseado Gobierno" ("Another Four Utopian Stories in Modern Spain: The Utopias of J. Maldonado, Omnibona and The Desired Government"), by Miguel Aviles, in Las Utopias en el Mundo Hispanico (Utopias in the Hispanic World), Casa de Velázquez : Universidad Complutense, 1990 (Conference Proceedings). "The Dream of the Spanish Empire: Juan Maldonado's 'Somnium' (1541)", Alejandro Coroleu & Jesus Carrillo, Albertiana 3, 2000, p. 141-157. "De la lune à l'Amérique: Étude sur le Somnium de Juan Maldonado (1541)", Anne Milhou, in Laurence Villard, Géographies Imaginaires, Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2008. p. 43-55. Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque: Juan Maldonado's Ludus Chartarum, Pastor Bonus, and Bacchanalia, Warren Smith & Clark Colahan, Leuven Univ. Press, 2009, chapter 1. "Juan Maldonado's Journey to the Moon: Somnium, 1541", by Augusto Uribe, New York Review of Science Fiction 22(4) (No. 256), p. 14-16. December 2009. 