Bilingual Short Stories Based on Reality and Dreams

Siete familias, siete soberanos, seis ciudades. «Un Juego de tronos a la italiana» Il Mattino di Padova Milán, Florencia, Venecia, Ferrara, Roma, Nápoles. La Italia del siglo XV es una tierra desgarrada por guerras, intrigas y traiciones, gobernada por señores a veces cautos, pero a la vez sedientos de poder y, en ocasiones, sanguinarios. Esta es la historia de la Italia del Renacimiento, una historia que marcará el futuro de Europa. En Milán, Filippo Maria, el último Visconti, ante la ausencia de hijos varones, intenta garantizar su legado casando a su pequeña hija con Francesco...

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

While Carmen de Burgos (Almeria 1867-Madrid 1932) belonged to the Generation of '98 in terms of her age, she is really too modern and progressive a figure for this categorization. A journalist, author, translator and progressive feminist intellectual, de Burgos was one of the most widely-read writers of her time. When she died she left a body of work impressive both in its quantity and quality: 12 full length and approximately 57 short novels. "La rampa" (1917) is the second full-length novel by Carmen de Burgos, and is dedicated -to all of the throngs of wounded and lost women who have come...

Un simple humano ha sido capaz de romper el equilibrio de una guerra milenaria. Bruno Popov, el Nigromante, campa por el mundo haciendo que los ángeles desaparezcan mientras los demonios devoran las almas del planeta. James Rot, el ángel de las alas de sangre, viaja a lo más profundo del bosque para obtener información sobre la Finis Ignis, una pócima legendaria que podría detener el avance de su némesis. En su camino encontrará a un mago perteneciente a una ancestral compañía francesa. Con su ayuda recorrerá el mundo buscando la poción que detenga al Nigromante. Poderosos rivales ...