Guillermo Hoyos

These 44 profiles of universal writers along with their portraits, will help you see how the way of living of the writers affected their work.

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

José Leandro Urbina, escritor y profesor universitario chileno, nos entrega Los dueños del mundo, una historia de la corrupción que se escapa a la rigidez del ensayo académico, sin perder erudición ni perspectiva, y que acompaña a esta serie de criminales y crímenes con una ironía que permite comprender cómo desde la Biblia, e incluso mucho antes, las sociedades se ven enfrentadas a la pillería, el robo y la trampa. Tan antigua como la vida en comunidad, el desvío de la norma o, directamente, su incumplimiento, nos acompaña desde el origen de lo humano y ha configurado las...

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...