El arte epistolar en el Renacimiento europeo, 1400-1600

El libro constituye una completa revisión de la biografía del gran humanista Antonio de Nebrija, para la que se ha acudido en todo momento a las fuentes bibliográficas y archivísticas originales, en no pocos casos desconocidas e inéditas. El resultado es una puesta al día de todo lo que sabemos sobre este ilustre profesor y filólogo que desarrollo su carrera durante el reinado de los Reyes Católicos.

Con más de 2000 entradas y 600 ilustraciones, el presente diccionario es una obra de consulta básica que interpreta para el lector la gran multiplicidad de significados culturales que nos guían en nuestra actividad cotidiana. Desde la curz y la rosa roja hasta el anillo de boda y las velas en la mesa, Biedermann se pregunta de dónde proviene la fuerza emocional de todas estas cosas y -sobre una amplia base arqueológica, etnológica, artística y psicológica- acaba proponiendo un fascinante viaje por todas las culturas, civilizaciones, religiones y sectas. Egipto, Mesopotamia, India,...

An effort to determine the origin of the African slaves brought to the central region of Cuba through a linguistic study that analyzes the speech of practitioners of the Palo Monte Afro-Cuban religion which contains remnants of Bantu languages.

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

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