Etiqueta: novela biográfica
La ambición y la intriga son las únicas pasiones de este hombre político, carente de escrúpulos y moral, que navega a través de las convulsiones sociales y políticas de la Francia revolucionaria y del imperio sin mudar el gesto. Como muy bien dice el autor Stefan Zweig: «Los gobiernos, las...
When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a...
“Martin Luther King” was the leader of the campaign for black civil rights in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s. This book tells the story of the peaceful demonstrations he held in the southern states demanding equal rights for blacks. He faced enormous opposition but his non-violent struggle...
"Marie Curie" was the brilliant scientist who discovered radium in the earliest years of XX siecle, a discovery that changed the world: doctors were later able to help people with cancer and scientists came to know more about the atom. This book tells her life of struggle, success and...
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.
