Tabla de Contenidos: “…The politics of interpreting disasters (Alessandro Tuccillo) -- Disaster and personal perception: The Calabria and Messina earthquakes (1783) according to the account by the Spanish clergyman Antonio Despuig y Dameto (Armando Alberola Romá) -- Between the brilliant light and the shadow of the insects: The instruction on the plague of locusts ordered by the Government of Guatemala in 1804 (Luis Alberto Arrioja Díaz Viruell) -- Index -- Series Index…”