Galeria Gabriela Mistral 2009

En el año 2005 se ha celebrado el cuarto centenario de la publicación de la obra Don Quijote de la Mancha, como ya se hiciera con ocasión del tercer centenario, en 1905. Entonces, igual que ahora, se desarrollaron toda una serie de actividades divulgativas de la obra y del autor. Entre otras actividades se realizaron una serie de artículos, poesía y textos insertados en muy diferentes publicaciones periódicas, así como la edicón de una importante cantidad de cromos, envolturas de caramelos, postales y otros elementos, que ayudaron a ensanchar el conocimiento de El Quijote. En este...

Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) and Manuel Manilla (ca. 1830-1895) are the greatest exponents of Mexican popular engraving. For decades they illustrated thousands of printed matter of various kinds. Among his numerous works are the engravings for one hundred and eighty stories dedicated to children. The book in question is a compendium of the representative sample of the best works of these engravers, whose work places them as the pioneers of the illustration of Mexican children's stories. It is divided in small chapters that classify and reunite the engravings and stories of the stories...

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

A rich man had a garden in which he had planted pear trees sprung from seeds taken from Eden. If eaten, these pears were said to have rejuvenating properties. Since he never had the opportunity to sample his pears -- because the fruit was always stolen from the bough -- he charged his children with finding the thief. But only his youngest will undertake the task and find the enchanted dove.