Cristobal Colón y Alonso Sánchez; ó, El primer descubrimiento del Nuevo mundo

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Elizabeth Phipps Train was the author of "Madam of the Ivies," "A Social Highwayman," "A Marital Liability" and other novels.

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

PEDRO MENDOZA no intenta â??contar su vidaâ??, sino la evoluci?3n de su propia sociedad, a modo de icono simb?3lico. Muchos espa?±oles, y otros ciudadanos del mundo, tuvieron alguna vez vivencias parecidas. Por eso, con el pretexto de su vida, incide en temas nucleares: educaci?3n, pobreza, sexo, amor, justicia, compromiso pol?­tico, cr?­tica de la religi?3n, globalizaci?3n, tercer mundoâ?¦ C?3mo un espa?±olito de posguerras, con origen rural y pobre, pas?3 de la sumisi?3n al sentido cr?­tico. Paso a paso, d?­a a d?­a, â??yo soy yo y mi circunstanciaâ?? (Ortega y Gasset). Desde...

Volumen que ofrece la primera edición crítica de la descripción de la ciudad de Verona escrita en latín por el juriconsulto y cronista local Torello Saraina, publicada en 1540. Una obra que responde al modelo de "laudatio urbis" establecido por Quintiliano. Escrita en forma de diálogo, los interlocutores son, además de Saraina, personajes pertenecientes a nobles y ricas familias veronesas, quienes recorren en varias jornadas la ciudad, desplegando una amable erudición junto al pintor y amante de las antigüedades (arqueólogo) Giovanni Carotto (1488-1566), a quien se deben las 30...