Agüelita De Rebeca

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Reinaron, conspiraron, firmaron tratados, manejaron los hilos de la política y las artes entre bastidores, etc. Son las damas más inteligentes del siglo XVI. El trasfondo político del momento que les tocó vivir fue convulso: luchas intestinas entre las potencias europeas, intereses territoriales, negociaciones, tratados y alianzas con otras casas reinantes, casamientos como prebendas en la política reinante, etc. Todas ellas supieron ingeniárselas para salirse con la suya y ser admiradas y respetadas. Margarita de Habsburgo, hija del archiduque Maximiliano de Austria, acabó gobernando...