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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

Narra el viaje a los orígenes de María de las Mercedes de Santa Cruz y Montalvo, condesa de Merlín, cubana culta, discreta con talento musical y literario, una mujer pionera por muchos motivos.

La ciudad de Antequera ha sido siempre, a lo largo de su milenaria historia, un punto estratégico, un lugar clave en el que se han asentado múltiples civilizaciones, que han ido dando forma a quienes somos en la actualidad. Enamorado de sus raíces y del lugar que le vio nacer, José Luis Sánchez-Garrido y Reyes nos propone un apasionante viaje en el tiempo para acercarnos a uno de los momentos fundamentales de la historia antequerana: el asedio y conquista en 1410 de la Madina Antakira musulmana a manos de las huestes cristianas, comandadas por el infante don Fernando. Sin duda, una gran...