Baltasar

Perhaps the greatest scope allowed to the fantastic is in Baltasar and Blimunda where the clairvoyant heroine gathers up the wills of the dying - energy that makes the aerial voyage in the book possible.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 - Presentation Speech 1998

I am called Baltasar the gay by all the other nationals, and it is on account of my gaiety and the liberality of my opinions that I am so popular among them.

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

I am called Baltasar the gay by all the other nationals, and it is on account of my gaiety and the liberality of my opinions that I am so popular among them.

The Bible in Spain 1712

"Baltasar," he said, his face white and hard; "let us stop our acting.

The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss

"Baltasar," continued the strange man on horseback, rightly judging from the gypsy's confusion that he had hit the mark and determining to take another chance shot; "you stole this girl from the family of a Spanish nobleman.

The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss

Onetime VC contributor Eric Posner has a WSJ op-ed on the indictment of Judge Baltasar Garzón in Spain and what this episode should teach us about the efforts to assert universal jurisdiction over alleged atrocities that occurred within the sovereignty of other nations.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010

European Pressphoto Agency Spanish judge and defendant Baltasar Garzon sits at the Supreme Court in Madrid during the first day of his trial.

Spanish Judge Garzón Stands Trial David Roman 2012

MADRID— Baltasar Garzón , the high-profile Spanish judge who pursued cross-border justice by indicting foreign dictators and alleged terrorists, sat on the defendant's bench on Tuesday in the first of three cases brought against him that may put an end to his controversial career.

Spanish Judge Garzón Stands Trial David Roman 2012

The Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón famously used this process to order the arrest of Chile's Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.

Argentinian judge petitions Spain to try civil war crimes of Franco Giles Tremlett in Madrid 2010

No reference to a violation of international law — presumably because there was no ICC or courts of Spain or Baltasar Garzon in the mid-1990s — but a very real concern about US domestic law.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010