Cuentos, ensayos, teatro y testimonios selectos

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

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El 10 de marzo de 1820, el conde de Almodóvar fue proclamado capitán general de los Reinos de Valencia y Murcia. En ese mismo momento, su antecesor en el cargo, Francisco Javier Elío, fue recluido en la Ciudadela de la ciudad de Valencia, de la que no salió hasta el 4 septiembre de 1822 para ser ajusticiado a garrote vil por los liberales. Este héroe y mártir para unos, villano y sanguinario para otros, fue uno de los artífices principales de la restauración absolutista de 1814. De su mano, la reacción y la represión se alzaron con furia para combatir todo aquello que se había...