Etiqueta: novela biográfica

With a businessman for a father, "St. Francis" was at first more concerned with business matters thatt with learning, but in the episcopal school under the arcade of the church of S. George, the boy learned to read and write throught a colection of prayers and psalms in vernacular...

Pedro Pablo "Rubens" es uno de los más importantes y famosos pintores de la escuela flamenca, de estilo dinámico, colorista y sensual. Recibe influencias de las mitologías griega y romana clásicas y del Renacimiento. Pintó la increíble cantidad de mil quinientos cuadros, si bien es verdad que instaló en...

(Raffaello Santi, también llamado Rafael Sanzio o Rafael de Urbino, “Raphael” para la posteridad; Urbino, actual Italia, 1483 - Roma, 1520) Pintor y arquitecto italiano. Por su clasicismo equilibrado y sereno basado en la perfección de la luz, la armonía en la composición y el dominio de la perspectiva,...

Born in Moscow, Russia on June 9, 1672, “Peter the Great” was a Russian czar in the late 17th century who is best known for his extensive reforms in an attempt to establish Russia as a great nation. He created a strong navy, reorganized his army according to Western...

Sculptor, painter, architect, poet. "Michelangelo" was all these and more. He and his genius dominated the Italian Renaissance, an epoch plenty of outstanding men. He was recognized in his time, and in all of them, as one of the greatest artirts who ever lived.

The birth of the future "Louis XIV" was a grand affair of state. It was also an event thar fell just short of being miraclulous: the King and Queen had been married for 23 years and they detested each other. After that unfruitful marriage everyone had become resigned to...

"Goethe" saw many thigs during its log span: wars, upheavals in society, far-reaching changes in living conditions, radical transformations in the sciences and arts, the reign of Frederik II of Prusia, th Seven Years' War, the American and the French Revolutions, Napoleon's meteoric rise and fall... "Goethe" whitnessed the...

La Conquista de México toca una fibra muy sensible y arroja una cruda luz sobre la compleja mezcla de la civilización humana. En este encuentro del Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo, choque muy violento, cada uno ve la barbarie en el otro campo, pero también ve otras cosas. ¿Cómo...

In 1492 Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Palos in Spain to Guanahani, which he renamed San Salvador. Two weeks later he discovered Cuba. In all he made four voyages to the New World, presenting Spain with a vast new empire and, through his discoveries, nearly doubling the...

The Heroes and Warriors series captures the romance and adventure of the past, by telling the stories of the lives of famous champions and warlords. Narrated by Jason Hook, the name, life and legend of “Geronimo”, the last hostile to surrender and leader of the Apache rebelión first with Mexico...