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"El viaje a Italia" constituye un fenómeno fascinante para entender la formación de Europa, sus momentos sublimes y sus más prosaicas, y no menos interesantes, aventuras carnales. Desde los viajeros que en el Renacimento buscaban lo "humano" de la antigüedad latina hasta los actuales viajes organizados, masificados, este ritual contacto con las raíces de la cultura ha influido a multitud de escritores y artistas de la talla de Edward Gibbon, Goethe, Stendhal, Heine, Turner o Henry James, entre muchos otros. Con un estilo divertido y una documentación apabullante, Attilio Brilli teje una ...

Noventa años después, la Segunda República cobra una especial y controvertida actualidad. ¿Fue una eclosión de libertad, cultura e ilustración popular, frustrada por la violencia de unas clases reaccionarias que no toleraban la pérdida de sus privilegios?, o ¿fue un régimen de arbitrariedad e incultura, pobreza, separatismos y odios políticos que abocarían a la guerra civil? Basta plantear la cuestión para entender su proyección histórica: ¿Debemos considerar aquella república un modelo de convivencia política en que inspirarnos o, al contrario, como una rechazable...

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...