Vidas de los doce Césares

Cayo Suetonio Tranquilo (h. 69-140 d. C.) nació cuando la dinastía de los Flavios subió al poder. En Roma, donde transcurrió gran parte de su vida, ejerció como secretario a sudies, a bibliothecis y al servicio de Trajano y secretario ab epistolae en la época de Adriano, cargo que le permitió el acceso a los archivos imperiales y la correspondencia entre César y Augusto, material que utilizó en sus Vidas de los doce Césares, su obra más conocida. Tiberio (42 a. C. -37 d. C.) fue emperador del Imperio romano desde el año 14 hasta el 37. A los nueve años perdió a su padre, y...

An exceptional biography of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author examines Pombo not only as the excentric lover and admirer of the night, and a man inclined to dress himself as a woman, but also his rarely mentioned sides--engineer, nihilist, military man, patriot, and advocate of Bogotá's nineteenth-century culture.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Un biopic original, sin adornos, de estilo directo y lleno de expresividad, de una leyenda de la fotografía, que nos sumerge en un período único de la historia contemporánea. 1954. Robert Capa hace balance de una vida consagrada a cubrir los campos de batalla del mundo entero. Lejos de la imagen de aventurero impulsivo y temerario que lo caracterizó y que ha hecho de él una leyenda del fotoperiodismo, Capa habla de sí mismo claramente y revela la herida original que determinó toda su existencia. «Si tus fotografías no son suficientemente buenas, es que no te has acercado bastante». ...