Tenth edition 2025

Humanities Library

Daniel Rico Camps

Daniel Rico Camps (1969) is a tenured professor in the Department of Art and Musicology at UAB, a position he has held since 2002. He earned his PhD in Art History in 1999 and conducts teaching and research in areas such as medieval art and epigraphy, heritage theory, and historical memory. He is currently the Director of the Department of Art and Musicology.

Throughout his academic career, he has held several senior positions. He served as Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Art History at UAB from 2021 to 2023 and as Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies from 2018 to 2021. He oversees the collections El espejo y la lámpara (since 2017) and 50 Years of UAB Experiences (since 2018) and was also editor of the scholarly journal Locus Amoenus between 2019 and 2022.

Professor Rico has worked closely with the Humanities Library at UAB in the selection, organisation, and transfer of the library donation and the personal and professional archive of his father, Professor Francisco Rico. During 2024 and 2025, he carefully selected and catalogued the material, overseeing its move to the library. He maintained ongoing collaboration with the BH technical team to ensure the donation was processed appropriately and made fully accessible to researchers.

Francisco Rico (1942–2024) was a Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at UAB and a member of prestigious international institutions, including the Real Academia Española, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the British Academy. His research focused primarily on Petrarch and Italian Humanism, the Spanish Golden Age, picaresque novels, and the works of Cervantes.

These subjects are comprehensively represented in his bibliographic legacy of around 30,000 volumes, which also includes detailed collections in the history of early printing, Latin, medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as modern European literature and a significant range of contemporary Spanish literature, particularly from the post-war period.

This collection is notable for its thematic specialisation and serves as a unique research resource for scholars in the Humanities and Philology. Its distinctiveness lies in both the quality and coherence of the selection made by Professor Daniel Rico, which faithfully reflects Francisco Rico’s intellectual interests throughout his career.