Triunfo en su época

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En nuestro tiempo, a la vez que se producen debates en torno a la muestra de restos humanos en museos, asistimos al éxito de público de exhibiciones de restos humanos en operaciones comerciales que se sitúan a medio camino entre la divulgación científica y el negocio del espectáculo. Las preguntas que suscita este doble episodio contemporáneo son muchas, las respuestas dependen, en mayor o menor medida, de argumentos en boca de un amplio elenco de expertos de diferente condición y procedencia (geográfica, cultural, social). Sin embargo, con frecuencia, la historicidad del fenómeno...