El fantasma de Noriega

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Este libro investiga la historia de la pasión por coleccionar desde el Renacimiento hasta nuestros días. Todo objeto de colección, ya sea una caja de cerillas o la uña de un mártir, tiene un significado que trasciende al objeto mismo; es un tótem. Y el afán incesante por poseerlo convierte al coleccionista en un antropólogo cultural. Philipp Blom destila los temas que subyacen a esta pasión aparentemente tan inasible: conquista y posesión, caos y memoria, un vacío que colmar y la conciencia de la propia mortalidad. «Una crónica sobre la rareza de la mente humana, y la maravilla...

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...

PATRICIO DE ROMA es una obra de narrativa histórica en la que se cuentan en primera persona las aventuras de un patricio romano, Cayo Emilio Flavio, contemporáneo de Octavio Augusto, que a su servicio y junto al arquitecto Marco Vitruvio, desarrolla en su primera etapa profesional como ingeniero civil, una serie de obras importantes de construcción e infraestructuras en diversos confines del Imperio, como el Limes Septentrional, cruzando Italia, Francia, Suiza y Alemania por la frontera del Rin, así como el Mediterráneo Oriental, Asia Menor, Egipto y el sur de Arabia. En su madurez asume ...