Novela histórica

El cantar de mío Cid es un poema épico que nos ha llegado copiado en un códice del siglo XIV, de 74 hojas de pergamino, al que le faltan la primera hoja y dos interiores. Al final de la obra se dice que la copió en 1207 Per Abbat...

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn...

On September 9, 1828, Leo “Tolstoy” was born in Tula Province, Russia. In the 1860s, he wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best known novels, Anna Karenina. He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and...

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...