España, ombligo del mundo

Cuando el jesuita Eusebio Kino conoció California, quedó prendado de esta gran región y sus habitantes indígenas. A pesar de que ya no regresó a ella, nunca la olvidó. A lo largo de sus cartas, informes y de su famoso "Favores Celestiales", Kino la menciona constantemente. Todos sus proyectos y su presencia misma en Sonora, estuvieron en función de California. Sin su apoyo, el proyecto evangelizador de Juan María Salvatierra se hubiera sumado a la larga lista de fracasos por establecer esta provincia. Es así que sin Kino no se explica California, y sin California no se explica la...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

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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...