Colombia. Bosquejo de su geografía tropical

Augusto / Werner Eck -- Tiberio / Greg Rowe -- Calígula / Anthony A. Barrett -- Claudio / Donna W. Hurley -- Nerón / Miriam T. Griffin -- Vespasiano / Barbara Levick -- Adriano / Mary T. Boatwright -- Marco Aurelio / Anthony R. Birley -- Septimio Severo / David Potter -- Diocleciano / Simon Corcoran -- Constantino / Noel Lenski -- Justiniano / James Allan Evans.

Uno de los principales triunfos del hombre sobre la naturaleza fue el de vencer las tinieblas gracias a la lumbre o luz producida por el fuego. Dicen los cronistas que el primer indicio que tuvo Cristóbal Colón ,al llegar a lo que él desconocía que iba a ser América, no estuvo asociado a la visión de tierra sino a los reflejos de luz producidos por las hogueras o fogones encendidos por los habitantes del nuevo mundo. La lucha del hombre contra la oscuridad es una de tantas que la humanidad ha enfrentado en su camino evolutivo. Pues bien, desde esa primera lumbre hasta los grandes...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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