El Hombre Gris (L'homme Gris)

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Up to which point is heiress the actual Europe of the historic contribution to medieval organisations? Those who have asked this question will find the answer in this book, a collection of such areas as rights, historic and artistic patrimony, literary contributions.

Este libro nos invita a un viaje en que la Ilíada y la Odisea nos servirán de guía para recorrer el mundo de Homero «desde Troya primero a través de la costa turca del Egeo y luego por las riberas del Mediterráneo, siguiendo las huellas de Odiseo cuando va a combatir en la Guerra de Troya y luego, tras pasar numerosas peripecias, de regreso a su patria con su familia en Ítaca». John Freely, que ha vivido muchos años en Grecia y en Turquía, y que tiene un buen conocimiento de los hallazgos recientes de la arqueología, no pretende ofrecernos un relato de viajes por los escenarios...

Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the 1909 air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. The book analyzes a multitude of speakers in the aviation discourse ranging from Aby Warburg and Gabriele D'Annunzio, over the Futurists and Ernst Jünger to the Fascists proper. Esposito shows how the flyer came to symbolize not only New Man and the new eternal time the Fascists were...