This has been very useful to me.

Started reading a three-parter by Steven Roger Fischer which just came out :

History of Reading
History of Writing
History of Language

ISBN 0 000001364811

which covers some of this ground.

Came to your page from:

http://welleducatedminds.blogspot.com/

I tried without success to post a comment to her on the lines of 'Don't feel guilty about not reading the book. Try reading the commentaries and do the Spanish connection, i.e. what the Spanish think about and say about their most famous book. Unamuno, for example, has quite a lot to say...'.