Vidas de los doce Césares

Michel de Montaigne afirmaba que «un homme honnête, c’est un homme mêlé». Entre la fórmula del filósofo y las realidades de la sociedad colonial media, sin embargo, un abismo. La presente obra, que habla del encuentro de los Mundos, de la formación de los grupos coloniales y de la circulación de los libros, revela que las situaciones de movilidad entremezclan las identidades hasta el punto de engendrar la sospecha. Tanto los indios, al entrar en contacto con los españoles, como los mestizos, como los europeos emigrados, se convierten, en mayor o menor medida, en «hombres...

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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 la mitad del siglo XIX, se desencadeno en el Uruguay una lucha descomunal entre la corriente liberal masonica y la corriente ultramontana jesuitica. La primera representada en el gobierno de Bernardo P. Berro, y la segunda en el jefe de la Iglesia Catolica, el vicario apostolico Jacinto Vera.