Andancas E Viajes de Pero Tafur

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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...

Los refranes y maldiciones del acervo folclórico ídish que, en versión española y fonética original ídish, integran la presente obra, fueron seleccionados intentando brindar una muestra amplia y representativa de esta singular expresión oral del pueblo judío. En el marco de una historia más de tres veces milenaria, el ídish condensa una cultura cocinada a fuego lento a lo largo de un milenio. Muchos refranes ídish son chistes condensados, y también expresiones de sabiduría popular: Los dos se quieren, él se quiere y ella se quiere. Cuando la solterona sale a bailar van los...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804-Playmouth, New Hampshire, 1864) está considerado uno de los más grandes cuentistas y novelistas que ha dado la literatura norteamericana. Descendiente de puritanos e hijo de un capitán de barco que murió en el mar en 1808, llevó una vida de dificultades económicas y preocupaciones morales de raíz calvinista, que se reflejan transparentemente en su obra, en la que la atinada observación realista concierta con la inclinación hacia lo dramático y misterioso. Fanshawe (1828), Musgos de la vieja rectoría (1840), La letra escarlata (1850) y ...

Para explorar las múltiples relaciones entre la verdad histórica, lo falso y la ficción, Carlo Ginzburg indaga en temas muy heterogéneos: judíos de Menoría y caníbales brasileños, chamanes y anticuarios, romances medievales, los Protocolos de los sabios de Sión, la fotografía y la muerte, Voltaire, Stendhal, Flaubert, Auerbach, Kracauer, Montaigne. Contra la tendencia del escepticismo posmoderno a difuminar la frontera entre narraciones de ficción y narraciones históricas, el autor aborda esta relación como una disputa por la representación de la realidad, un conflicto hecho de...

El Instituto Confucio imparte conferencias mensuales sobre temas relacionados con la cultura China. Este libro incluye los textos de las conferencias que se impartieron durante el año 2013. Los títulos y los autores son los siguientes: 1. WUSHU: Su desarrollo en Cuba / Roberto Vargas Lee. – FEBRERO / 2013 2. Experiencias de la Expo China-México / Ricardo Román Chang Gamboa. – MARZO / 2013 3. China 2012: Desempeño económico social / Julio Aracelio Díaz Vázquez. – ABRIL / 2013 4. Chinos en La Habana. Un estudio de las prácticas de consumo cultural de empresarios chinos residentes ...