Las glorias desvanecidas

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

La Historia del Almirante, constituida por una sucinta biografía de Cristóbal Colón y una extensa relación de sus cuatro viajes a América es teóricamente debida a la pluma de su hijo Hernando Colón. Lejos de configurarse como un cúmulo de fríos datos históricos, tanto la forma como el contenido del libro están marcados por esa impronta de velado misterio y fascinante aventura que caracteriza a buena parte de los relatos centrados en el descubrimiento de América. Escrita originariamente en castellano, la obra se publicó sólo en versión italiana en 1571. Tras un complicado...

"Using personal testimonies, the author provides an incisive portrait of Pope Benedict XVI, the man who, in one of the shortest conclaves in history, was chosen as the guardian of the Catholic doctrine, the Catholic Church's 265th Pope, answering questions about his theology, personal beliefs, and more."

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.