Convento Viejo en el corazón

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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...

Edmundo De Amicis era un romántico en el más amplio sentido de la expresión. Y ese romanticismo suyo está muy presente en su ingente obra periodística, ensayística y literaria, hasta el punto en que, trascendiendo los géneros al uso, las crónicas de De Amicis terminaron por erigirse como un género propio, personal e irrepetíble.

La conquista de América no concluyó nunca. Hasta el fin de su presencia en las Indias los españoles convivieron con “indios bravos” que controlaban muchas de las tierras del continente. Este gran libro, del que el profesor Saeger ha dicho “que será leído por muchas generaciones”, recorre esta inmensa frontera que iba desde Chile hasta California y nos describe, combinando una asombrosa erudición con una narración ágil y fluida, las complejas relaciones de los españoles con estos pueblos. Relaciones que eran en ocasiones de paz, reconociendo a gobiernos autónomos tribales, y...