La Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana

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...

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En sus análisis de las distintas leyendas que hablan de las tentativas humanas de ascender a los cielos, al igual que los dioses, en pos de la inmortalidad, el autor se adentra en las vidas de los faraones de Egipto que enseñaron cómo recorrer la Ruta de

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El hispanista Gerald Brenan, harto de la rigidez anglosajona, llegó en 1920 a Yegen, pueblecito plácidamente recostado en una ladera alpujarreña. Allí, y hasta 1934, residió, alternando con viajes, más de seis años. Fascinado por la sencilla espontaneidad de sus gentes, su lenguaje y sus costumbres, Brenan, al tiempo que se documentaba, fue anotando minuciosamente cuanto veía, oía y vivía. El resultado es esta emocionante y valiosa monografía sobre la vida en La Alpujarra en esos años, en la que quiso dejar constancia de todos los aspectos que le atrajeron, desde los usos amorosos ...