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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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Michael Jacobs, nacido en Italia en 1952, es un escritor de viajes e historiador del arte inglés, afincado en el pueblo jienense de Frailes desde 1999. Actualmente es uno de los hispanistas más renombrados de su generación y ha sido tildado como "el George Borrow de la era de la alta velocidad". Es autor de libros de viajes y sobre arte y, además de este De la Alhambra a Tombuctú, su primer libro vertido al español, ha publicado sobre España Andalucia (Penguin Books, 1990), Between hopes and memories. A spanish journey (Picador, 1994) y The factory of light (John Murray, 2003),...

La Segunda Guerra Mundial concluyó con la derrota de la Alemania nazi en mayo de 1945. Con su visión obstinada y fanática de la realidad, y dejando tras de sí un rastro de millones de muertos, Hitler condujo a su país al abismo.Algunas de las...