Cuando abracé la vida (un canto a la esperanza)

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...

Giuseppe Verdi es uno de los compositores mas famosos, apasionantes y longevos de la historia de la musica. Un siglo despues de su muerte, muchas de sus operas siguen apareciendo en todos los repertorios del genero, e incluso algunas de ellas como RIGOLETTO, IL TROVATORE, LA TRAVIATA Y AIDA se encuentran entre las mas populares jamas compuestas. Escrita en colaboracion con la familia Verdi y gracias a un amplio abanico de fuentes, esta biografia autorizada pasa exhaustiva revista a una vida larga, vigorosa y variada. La autora sabe captar con todo lujo de detalles la tremenda energia, la gran ...

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...

Máximo poeta de la Edad Media e, incluso, de todos los tiempos, Dante se distingue por su extraordinaria capacidad de hablar directamente a la conciencia y a la sensibilidad del lector moderno como ningún otro poeta o escritor de la antigüedad; y esto pese a que el tema de su obra poética sea típicamente medieval, pues sus referencias son de un marco cultural concreto y sus razonamientos mentales y el modo de sentir alejados de lo actual, pero, sin embargo, todo ello no dificulta su lectura ni menoscaba lo maravilloso de su obra. Para interntar comprender y dar una explicación en...