La hoguera de Montsegur

23 de enero de 1516, Fernando el Católico fallecía en Madrigalejo. Moría como rey de Aragón, Valencia, Sicilia, Nápoles y Navarra, conde de Barcelona y gobernador del reino de Castilla —títulos que dejaba a su hija Juana, reina ya de Castilla—. Fernando había sido un militar de éxito, un amante de la buena vida, un político maquiavélico, un hábil cazador, un conspirador sibilino y un padre que buscó con las alianzas matrimoniales aumentar su poder. Pero por encima de todo fue el primer monarca que ciño todas las coronas que constituyen la España de hoy. En el quinto...

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

La contraofensiva estratégica De la Sierra Maestra a Santiago de Cuba