Antonio Llidó, un sacerdote revolucionario

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation, as men who decimated the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs ...

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Esta antologia poetica se centra tematicamente en la celebracion de la festividad del Corpus Christi en la ciudad de Toledo. Ya que el celebre rito ha inspirado una impresionante cantidad de poesia a lo largo de las edades, este volumen reune textos dispersos que abarcan mas de un milenio. Los versos de dicho subgenero compuestos en los siglos XVI y XVII tienden a ser devotos, teologicos o misticos. En tiempos mas recientes, la poesia -corpuscristica-, sin abandonar el matiz religioso, ha llegado a ser una celebracion en el inigualable festival eucaristico. Los autores representados en la...

Desde que el ser humano ha adquirido la capacidad de pensar, ha tenido la voluntad de fijar por escrito sus ideas con los más variopintos materiales y signos. Y desde ese momento, han debido enfrentarse a la dura lucha por la supervivencia. Este libro es un minucioso y fascinante recorrido por la historia universal de la destrucción de los libros, un sobre cogedor itinerario que nos lleva de la destrucción de las tablillas sumerias al reciente saqueo de las bibliotecas de Bagdad.