Rouco Varela. El cardenal de la libertad

Doña Isabel, infanta de Aragón, proporciona un paradigma de "reina santa" que debe vivir y ejercer su poder en un contexto de profundo catolicismo, pero marcado por complejos problemas morales y por las no siempre fáciles relaciones entre el Papado y los reinos cristianos.

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...

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Prologo de Alejandro Llano ¿Puede el eco cobrar fuerza con el tiempo, en vez de languidecer? ¿Qué esconde Hannah Arendt para que, casi cuarenta años después de morir, su voz siga originando huracanes en el mundo contemporáneo? Probablemente una de las fuerzas ocultas que actúan de imán sobre esta autora sea esa «cabezonería intelectual» para intentar razonar lo irrazonable, para robar un poco de luz a la asfixiante oscuridad, para construir puentes entre el pasado y el futuro, aunque la enésima riada de la Historia se los lleve por delante una vez más. También hoy vivimos...