Semblanza y correspondencia

Después de una ardua labor de investigación, Sicilia logra "penetrar y tocar con las manos desnudas" la vida y la doctrina espiritual de Concepción Cabrera de Armida (1862-1937), cuyo amor, humanidad y compromiso histórico la colocan como una de las más altas místicas de México, a la altura de mujeres excepcionales como santa Teresa de Jesús y santa Teresita de Lisieux. La narración se ve enriquecida con la reconstrucción amena e interesante, junto con la vida de esta mujer, de buena parte de la historia de México.

En una época en que los viajes y las exploraciones en el interior de la Amazonia peruana comenzaban a multiplicarse, ¿por qué priorizar los escritos de Olivier Ordinaire antes que otras obras? Sólo para los viajeros franceses, justo antes que, por ejemplo, se publicaba Des Andes au Para de Du Pacifique á L'Atlantique, Marcel Monnier y después Sud-Améríque del conde Charles d'Ursel y sobre todo Le Pérou de Auguste Plañe; este libro presenta “los resultados de una misión geográfica y comercial” llevada a cabo de 1899 a 1902 en “la América ecuatorial” y una gran parte de sus ...

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