María del Rosario Aguilar Perdomo, a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (whose Faculty of Human Sciences distinguished her with an outstanding teaching award), earned a doctorate in Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid after graduating in Philosophy and Humanities from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). She has been a visiting lecturer at the universities of Milan, Bergamo, the Nacional Autónoma de México and Trento. Her main fields of research are Spanish sixteenth-century chivalric novels, the relationships between gardens and literature in the reigns of Charles V and Philip II, and scholarship on Cervantes in Colombia.