Cuando las Segovias lloraron sangre

Esmeralda Santiago finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to come under the thrall of "the Turk" and discover that romantic passion, too, can become a prison.

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

El poeta Rainer Maria Rilke y la princesa Marie von Thurn und Taxis se conocieron en diciembre de 1909. Un año después, en 1910, Rilke visitó por primera vez el castillo de Duino, en la costa adriática, donde la amabilidad y la confianza de su anfitriona crearon el clima adecuado para la gestación de sus famosas Elegías. Más tarde fue también su huésped en Venecia y en el palacio Lautschin, en Bohemia. Sea como fuere, el generoso mecenazgo y la protección de la princesa permitieron al poeta desarrollar su labor creativa en unas condiciones de las que pocos autores de su tiempo...

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