El Tratado de la Peste de Ibn Jatima (I)

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Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camaguey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General de Indias in Spain. Ex-professor at the University of Havana and the Cuban Seminar (San Carlos), he is the author of 42 history books. Monsignor Roman was a holy man, totally given to virtue, as we can observe reading the events in his life, witnessed by the thousands of people who knew and revered him. It is for this reason that this...

Narra la fundación de México-Tenochtitlan en 1325, en una pequeña isla en medio del lago de Texcoco que llegó a ser la sede del imperio azteca, uno de los más poderosos de Mesoamérica; que con su poderío militar sometió a casi todas las naciones indígenas de su entorno y los obligó a rendir tributo. La capital azteca fue conquistada en 1519, por los españoles al mando de Hernán Cortés.

La introducción del modo de producción moderno supuso que la cuenca media del río Magdalena transitó de un mundo mítico que se expresaba en el canto y la poesía a un mundo histórico que era expresado por la historia y la novela. La poética de la tierra caliente será al mismo tiempo producto y forma de conciencia de un mundo orquestado por unas faenas sociales concretas, de las atadas a la ribera y a la selva, de las emplazadas en medio de los cultivos, de las adentradas en las profundidades de las minas, de las que surgieron con las aldeas primordiales. El ascenso y la caída de...