Hernán Cortés

Esteban Mira Caballos, un historiador con una larga experiencia en la investigación de la conquista de América, nos ofrece en este libro una vida de Francisco Pizarro, basada en el empleo exhaustivo de las fuentes, y una nueva visión de la conquista del Perú: un drama en que los indígenas fueron diezmados por la combinación de la guerra, las enfermedades y el hambre, pero en el que también los conquistadores sufrieron las consecuencias de una serie de enfrentamientos internos, venganzas y traiciones, que condujeron a crímenes como aquel en que sucumbió el propio Francisco Pizarro. Lo ...

La historia española, a fuerza de larga y extensa, es como una casa grande y enorme, llena de recovecos, e incluso cuartos enteros, en los que se acumulan hechos —unos gloriosos, otros deleznables, algunos casi increíbles— que han ido cayendo en el olvido con el paso del tiempo. Rincones de historia española es un paseo por algunos de esos recovecos ya por muchos olvidados. Este libro, y conviene recalcarlo, no es un anecdotario al uso, sino una antología de sucesos históricos que van desde incidentes menores a sucesos que en su época tuvieron gran resonancia. Una obra escrita con...

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