Miguel López de Legazpi. La conquista de Manila.

Antonio Vivaldi: Il Prete Rosso es la biografía novelada del célebre compositor, narrada en vísperas de su muerte en Viena, en 1741. En el relato, impregnado de gran sensualidad, ternura y realismo, se respira el ambiente veneciano del siglo XVIII. El músico más notable quizá que haya dado Venecia nos narra su infancia y juventud, su formación musical y religiosa, pues fue sacerdote, y sus tres grandes amores: el Pio Ospedale della Pietà –del que fue maestro di violino- que fuera su casa de toda una vida; Cecilia, su primera amante, solista de trompa del orfanato, que le diera dos...

Siglo XIII. Tierra Santa sigue tomada por los infieles y slo una nueva Cruzada podra conseguir su conversin, pero la escandalosa corrupcin de la Iglesia y la mezquindad de varios soberanos impiden que la campaa se realice. El ltimo Cruzado es una fascinante novela sobre la vida de Ramn Llull y Arnau de Vilanova, ilustres pensadores de la Edad Media, y sus conexiones con el poder clerical de la poca, el curioso papado de Avion, los reinos europeos del momento, la Orden del Temple, las Vsperas Sicilianas y las herejas que asolaban Europa. Ninguno pudo escapar a su destino: Vilanova fue...

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El 1574 las prensas de Plantino dieron a la luz la obra del médico español Francisco Arceo de Fregenal “De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione ”. Esta obra, prologada y, tal vez, redactada finalmente por Benito Arias Montano, pondría en circulación los conocimientos médicos del galeno frexnense.