Aequora, pontos, jam, mare... Mare, uomini e merci nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Genova, 9-10 dicembre 2004)

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El libro se basa en los expedientes de corrupción municipal que, una vez denunciados, se veían en la sala primera de gobierno del Consejo de Castilla. Se incluyen las actuaciones de ese Consejo, las sentencias a que daban lugar tales casos y las reacciones de los caciques sentenciados. Ello permite ofrecer un amplio y triste panorama de la vida de los municipios castellanos del siglo XVIII, y posibilita asimismo penetrar en las actuaciones del Consejo. La muestra es amplia, desde luego: incluye todos los casos de corrupción estudiados en el Consejo entre 1714 y 1760. Pero esa corrupción...

Es bien conocido el importante papel que desempeñaron Daniel Cosío Villegas y Alfonso Reyes en la tarea de prestar ayuda a los intelectuales españoles que se encontraban desamparados a raíz de la guerra civil que devastó su país entre 1936 y 1939. La expresión más evidente de esta ayuda fue La Casa de España en México, una institución creada por el general Lázaro Cárdenas en julio de 1938 y de la que Cosío y Reyes fueron los principales impulsores.