El pelotón rojo

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

An exceptional biography of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author examines Pombo not only as the excentric lover and admirer of the night, and a man inclined to dress himself as a woman, but also his rarely mentioned sides--engineer, nihilist, military man, patriot, and advocate of Bogotá's nineteenth-century culture.

Estudio del universo simbólico desplegado en las visiones de Hildegard von Bingen, origen de una tradición visionaria occidental, sagrada y secularizada, cuya estética se fundamenta en el valor de las imágenes, abordadas a partir de comparaciones que ofrecen contrapuntos al caso de Hildegard, como el Apocalipsis de Juan de Patmos, o la obra del surrealista Max Ernst, analizando el fenómeno visionario como experiencia extraordinaria o como parte integrante del proceso creador.

Sobre la base de una documentación rigurosa y en gran parte inédita, Roque narra la vida del presidente Sáenz Peña, al que se recuerda por la ley electoral que lleva su nombre y por la invocación "América para la Humanidad", del discurso de Washington.