Rafael Pombo

Timelines and illustrations complement the fascinating biography of Nezahualcóyotl--the monarch of Tezcoco, poet, astronomer, statesman, philosopher, legislator, engineer, and architect--who is considered the most important figure of pre-Hispanic Mexico.

Estas páginas despiertan la simpatía y el afecto hacia la figura de la santa de Ávila, arrastrándonos, como si fuera la cosa más natural del mundo, hacia las cimas del amor a Dios.

Se retrata aquí algunos aspectos de quien fuera el embajador sueco en Chile al momento del golpe de Estado, Harald Edelstam. Defensor acérrimo del gobierno de Allende, salvo muchas vidas durante los primeros meses de la Dictadura.

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...