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Un magnífico ensayo sobre el fascinante papel del valido en la Europa de la era moderna. En los siglos XVI y XVII observadores ingleses, españoles, franceses y de otras naciones europeas se mostraban alarmados ante la creciente influencia de los validos, favoritos o ministros-favoritos. Estos personajes parecían estar usurpando competencias y obligaciones normalmente ejercidas por los monarcas. En este libro pionero, un grupo de ilustres historiadores internacionales -entre los que figuran Laurence Brockliss, Jonathan Brown, John H. Elliott, Antonio Feros, Marc Fumaroli y I.A.A. Thompson-...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Estudio exhaustivo de la historia del chocolate. La obra más completa sobre el producto que transformó los paladares de la aristocracia europea de los albores del siglo XVII primero, y del resto del mundo, después. Bebida de los dioses en el panteón mitológico de las civilizaciones maya y azteca, el chocolate conquistó muy pronto el favor de los hombres. Las semillas de cacao con las que se elabora se usaban también como moneda de cambio y simbolizaban así el carácter sagrado de su cultivo... Siempre envuelto en un aura de misterio que alimentó una encendida polémica sobre sus...