The Navajos in 1705

La novela El alado alazán es la historia de un jinete y un caballo, de sus andanzas, vicisitudes y buenos momentos. El protagonista «humano» es don Gonzalo Téllez de Meneses, que se formó en la Escuela de Tercios de Madrid, y es destinado al Destacamento de Caballería de Costa de Alicante, durante el reinado de Felipe II, en el siglo XVI, esa edad de oro de nuestra literatura y de nuestra cultura. En cuanto al otro protagonista, que da nombre a la novela, el alado alazán, es adquirido por don Gonzalo en las Caballerizas Reales de Córdoba y, desde entonces, jinete y caballo forman como ...

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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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...