Las glorias desvanecidas

«L’età classica della corrida finì un giorno del 1914 dal barbiere. Un giovanotto dalla bazza pronunciata entrò in un famoso salone della madrilena calle Sevilla e sistemandosi sulla poltrona ordinò: “Barba e capelli. Ma prima mi tagli il codino” [...] Era un matador di 22 anni in rapinosa ascesa [...] Voleva solo cortarse la coleta, anacronistico cascame settecentesco, prolungando sin nel look la rivoluzione modernista che aveva appena avviato nelle plazas de toros. Di lì in poi la storia della tauromachia si sarebbe divisa in un prima e un dopo Belmonte [...]. Ma in che cosa...

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¿Qué soy yo? En las quimeras y el frenesí de la vida, angustiado, quiero hundirme, enterrarme en esta playa blanca de arena aún caliente, en este momento del crepúsculo. Algunos me envidiarían, viéndome apoyada en un coche descapotable, con mi traje de lino blanco, la mirada pérdida en el brillante horizonte de esta costa caribeña, pero yo sí, sé.

"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--