Los Bergantines de Hernan Cortes: El Final de una Obsesion

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Ensayos quemados en Chile, publicado por primera vez en 1978 en Argentina, incluye una serie de textos que tuvieron el privilegio de ser quemados durante la dictadura chilena, entre ellos una extensa introducción a La historia me absolverá, de Fidel Castro, escrita por Ariel Dorfman; también un ensayo introductorio a las Poesías escogidas de Ernesto Cardenal, “que pudo haberse verosímilmente salvado del fuego, en espera de la posterior guillotina”, y un estudio que se encontraba en prensa en el último número de la Revista de Educación, “que también habrá pasado por las...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

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 A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo.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...