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Una crónica extraordinaria de la época en que Venecia fue la capital editorial del mundo. ¿Dónde se imprimió el primer 'Corán' en árabe? ¿Y el primer 'Talmud'? ¿Y los primeros libros en griego o en cirílico? ¿Dónde se vendieron los primeros libros de bolsillo y los primeros best seller? La respuesta es siempre la misma: en Venecia. Venecia era una multinacional del libro, con las más grandes industrias tipográficas del momento, que permitían imprimir, en casi cualquier lengua, la mitad de los libros publicados en toda Europa. Aldo Manuzio es el genio que se inventa la figura...

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

A brief biography of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador, focusing on his role in the invasion and destruction of the Aztec civilization in Mexico.