Breve historia de las batallas navales del Mediterráneo

Todo el mundo ha oído hablar de Morgan o de Drake, incluso de Long John Silver o de Jack Sparrow -que nunca existieron-, pero pocos conocen hechos singulares como que Venecia actuó como estado pirata saqueando Constantinopla en 1204; que un rey de Aragón, Alfonso el Magnánimo, disponía de flota propia, y que llegaba al extremo de atacar enclaves de su propio reino para someterlos; que Colón pudo ser pirata, y que, de hecho, colaboró y contó con ellos para realizar el Descubrimiento... En realidad, la piratería, tan familiar y hasta entrañable en nuestro inconsciente colectivo, es...

Félix de Azara, 18 de mayo de 1742 (Barbuñales, Huesca)-1821. (España.) Fue militar, ingeniero, explorador, cartógrafo, antropólogo y naturalista. Estudió en la Universidad de Huesca y en la Academia militar de Barcelona dónde se graduó en 1764. Sirvió en el regimiento de infantería de Galicia y obtuvo el grado de lugarteniente en 1775. Siendo herido en la guerra de Argel, sobrevivió de milagro. Asimismo rechazó en 1815 la Orden de Isabel la Católica en protesta por los ideales absolutistas imperantes en España. Mediante el tratado de San Ildefonso (1777), España y Portugal...

Of contents: Vol. 1. General introductions ; The festivals for Henri III in Cracow, Venice, Orléans and Rouen ; Festivals in Genoa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; Festivals in Poland-Lithuania from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century ; Festivals in the Netherlands -- Vol. 2. Festivals of the Protestant Union ; Festivals commemorating the defeat of Protestantism in La Rochelle ; Festivals in Scandinavia ; The New World : seventeenth-century festivals in the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru.

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