El precio de la lealtad

Francisco Cervantes de Salazar escribió su Crónica de la Nueva España por encargo del rey Felipe II. Esta obra destaca por sus datos sobre las culturas indígenas autóctonas, de gran valor antropológico, y por la visión que ofrece sobre la conquista y la gesta de Hernán Cortés. Además de su cercanía con la cultura mexicana, Cervantes de Salazar tuvo como referencias para este libro las Cartas de relación, del propio Cortés, y la Crónica de Francisco López de Gómara.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Las llamadas Casas Reales son hermosas y rutilantes ollas de grillos, que mandan o reinan todavía en muchos paises europeos, donde predomina casi exclusivamente la Casa de Borbón. Los Borbones están emparentados entre sí, de un modo u otro, cercano o lejanamente, con todos los tronos o monarquías existentes. Se entienden a través de un idioma común: el francés, proveniente de los originarios Capetos galos, una auténtica multinacional de la realeza. En este texto se ha desarrollado una historia de la Casa de Borbón, circunscrita al caso español y sus ramas circundantes.

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