Aventurero idealista

En la historia de los alucinantes viajes impulsados por los motivos más diversos, destaca el de Colón, en 1492, por su inesperado desenlace: América llegó a ser el más espectacular de los acontecimientos históricos. Las tierras que encontró Colón no eran propiamente el Nuevo Mundo, sino parte del mismo y único mundo de siempre. el autor examina cómo América aparece por virtud de la pura casualidad y de los proyectos personales de Colón y propone al lector el abandono del concepto descubrimiento, por otro que aprehenda de un modo más adecuado la realidad de los hechos: el de una...

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Córdoba es fruto de la convivencia, antagonismos e intercambios de diversas culturas: pequeño asentamiento junto al río; émula de la Roma imperial como capital Bética; avanzada del lujo y exotismo oriental como corte de los emires y califas omeyas; ciudad de frontera con el reino nazarí; orlada de prestigiosos blasones nobiliarios e innumerables conventos, como islas y archipiélagos diseminados extensamente en su tejido urbano renacentista y barroco —ora alimentado por la riqueza de Indias, ora asolado por crisis y epidemias—; y, finalmente, modesta y ensimismada capital de...