LA METAMORFOSIS DE UN INQUISIDOR: EL HUMANISTA DIEGO LÓPEZ DE CORTEGANA (1455 - 1524)

Arranca el siglo XVIII y una nueva dinastía inicia su andadura con Felipe V para culminar con Carlos III y la Ilustración. Los ilustrados Floridablanca, Campomanes o Esquilache (que dará nombre al famoso motín), no lograrán imponer sus tesis. Tras la Revolución Francesa (1789), Napoleón ambicionó dominar Europa y en España la guerra contra los franceses hará que el pueblo español añore a Fernando VII «el deseado». Después vendrá la guerra de sucesión y posteriormente las carlistas. La debilidad española propiciaría que las colonias americanas se independicen de la...

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Que el Imperio de Steven Saylor nunca caiga. Es un maestro de la ficción histórica con un estilo libre y elegante que nos transporta convincentemente al mundo antiguo ¡Apasionante! USA Today Steven Saylor retoma la historia donde la dejó en Roma ―novela de la que se han vendido más de 20.000 ejemplares―. Las sucesivas generaciones de la familia Pinario vuelven a ser testigos y protagonistas de uno de los momentos más brillantes de la Antigüedad: el esplendor del mundo romano, desde el reinado de Augusto hasta la caída del Imperio. De esta manera, sufren en sus propias carnes las...

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...