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For early modern authors, the meaning of invention lay between the classical world's omnipresent notion of imitation and what would later become Romantic ideals of genius and originality. In that sense, their era was a transitional phase, smoothing the passage from the classical notion of poetry as imitation to the understanding of literature as the product of the author's creative imagination and original thought. Yet a great conceptual richness lay in this intermediate position, capturing many of the political, religious and social tensions of the Renaissance. Rocío G. Sumillera is Associate Professor at the Universidad de Granada.

In this book, the Spanish artist team M̲arinaM̲orón visualize the ideas of silence and solitude through architectural photographs. Various chapters are devoted to the themes of light, color, and emptiness. Furnished with sparse poetic commentary, the book is like a kind of diary. The minimalist photographs are connected by the story of a fictitious person exploring her surroundings, memories, and rooms. M̲arinaM̲orón is the creative team of Jesús Marina, professor in Granada University, and Elena Morón, architect and researcher, whose work explores tangible connections between the image and architectonic space with an emphasis on the experiential qualities of color and the concept of emptiness. They have written three books, the last publication A-chroma was finalist at PhotoEspaña Book Award 2013.