Refutación de la Donación de Constantino

Jorge ve una luz en la isla de Kirrin en plena noche, señal de que hay intrusos en su isla. ¿Quienes son los misteriosos visitantes, y que hacen allí?

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Una impresionante crónica de Wojciech Jagielski sobre la guerra chechena. «En un mundo en guerra solo puedes ser partícipe, voluntario o involuntario. Es imposible permanecer como un mero investigador u observador.» Torres de piedra es un extraordinario reportaje de Wojciech Jagielski sobre uno de los lugares más trágicos y desconocidos del planeta: Chechenia. Los abundantes recursos petrolíferos y el derrumbe de la Unión Soviética en 1991 alimentaron las aspiraciones independentistas de la población chechena y desembocaron en dos sangrientas guerras contra Rusia que se saldaron con ...