Cien Grandes Papas, Sesde Pedro a la Actualidad

La vida heroica y dramática de Pablo IV queda reflejada íntegramente en este libro, que nos revela a un Montini a menudo inédito y en ocasiones secreto.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

"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...

Desde Mariano José de Larra, no ha existido en España un periodista más conocido y con más poder que él. Experto en el arte de mentir, fue el inspirador intelectual de los GAL y, poco después, maniobrero en la utilización de la lucha paralela contra ETA que con tanto ardor había defendido para acabar con Felipe González. Tras ser expulsado de Diario 16 intentó quitarle el periódico a su presidente y los que ayudaron a éste a oponerse a la OPA, acabaron fulminados años después desde El Mundo. Desde entonces, ha puesto y quitado ministros y presidentes de Gobierno a su antojo,...