La Corona de Aragón

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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...

Antes de la Revolución de 1789, Francia conoció dos siglos convulsos. Este largo periodo de transformaciones tiene como hilo conductor el salón literario, donde la mujer es la figura central y la conversación, el eje civilizador. Benedetta Craveri hace en este libro, tan riguroso y sugerente como ameno y erudito, un periplo literario apasionante, repleto de voces, de anécdotas de la más variada índole, de dichos memorables, de retratos, de descripciones de ambientes y lugares, y reconstruye de este modo un mundo en el que términos como sociabilidad, ingenio o gracia expresan un ideal...

En la Nueva España, la fama pública de numerosos eclesiásticos se basaba en su buen desempeño en el púlpito y el confesionario, así como en la publicación de libros religiosos. Dos manuales devotos le valieron a Fernando Martagón su ingreso en la Biblioteca Hispanoamericana Sepetentrional de Beristáin de Souza. En este célebre repertorio, Martagón pasó a la posteridad como un “varón celosísimo de la salud de las almas” por haberse empleado muchos años en la dirección espiritual de hombres y mujeres. Sin embargo, en el Secreto de la Inquisición de México se archivó un...