PAISAJES, TIEMPOS Y MEMORIA

Porfirio de Gaza, así denominado porque fue obispo de la ciudad palestina de Gaza desde el 395 al 420, fue objeto a su muerte de una biografía escrita por su fiel amigo y colaborador el diácono Marco. Narra la vida de Porfirio, primero como monje en Jerusalén y después como obispo hasta el 404 resaltando sus virtudes cristianas, sus milagros y la intensa actividad que desarrolló para cristianizar la ciudad y erradicar los cultos y templos paganos recurriendo incluso a medios violentos gracias al apoyo del emperador Arcadio. La amenidad de la presente Vida es tal que en muchos aspectos...

This is an invaluable comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located in depositories throughout Cuba.

Martin Diaz Tamayo (1904-1995) was an illiterate peasant from Pinar del Rio, Cuba, who joined the Cuban army at the age of sixteen and rose to the rank of major general.

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by...