Los Cielos Se Agotaron De Prodigios

Francisco de Aldana reune las virtudes humanas y literarias del siglo XVI. Su vida puede encuadrarse como la del perfecto soldado, capitan muerto en una campana militar, y su obra destaca por el compendio de rasgos renacentistas.

Tres intelectuales que trabajan en una editorial de Milán, establecen, por razones en un primer momento profesionales, relaciones demasiado estrechas con autores que se interesan por las ciencias ocultas, las sociedades secretas y las conjuras cósmicas. Inventan, por puro juego, un complejo 'plan', urdido supuestamente por los templarios hace siete siglos y mantenido hasta hoy. Pero alguien tomará en serio este juego y se verán inmersos en una alucinante pesadilla.

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.