Obras Completas de D. Ángel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas ...

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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 ...

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En el sistema premial español –e hispanoamericano–, ocupa un lugar de preferencia la Real y Americana Orden de Isabel la Católica, establecida el 24 de marzo de 1815, en plena crisis de la independencia de los territorios americanos, y cuyo bicentenario estamos conmemorando en este mismo año 2015. Creada para favorecer la unión de ambos mundos bajo la Corona española –lo que no pudo lograrse–, sus cruces vinieron a distinguir a los patriotas que se distinguieron en esa frustrada acción unificadora. Por ello, esta fue propiamente la primera condecoración de casi todos aquellos...

El tratado Stratagemata de Frontino es una colección de unos quinientos exempla que tratan sobre tácticas militares diversas, astucias, disciplina y hechos y dichos célebres de los grandes caudillos militares de la antigüedad. Esta variada casuística está dispuesta ordenadamente para servir de ayuda e inspiración a los capitanes antes, durante y después de la batalla, con un apartado dedicado al cerco de ciudades. Frontino hizo este trabajo extraordinario de recopilación como apéndice a un tratado militar teórico que se ha perdido. En él su autor nos dibuja un cuadro vivísimo y...