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En el momento crítico previo a su expulsión de España, la Compañía de Jesús desplegó un consciente y meditado uso de la imagen con fin adoctrinador y mnemotécnico. De acuerdo con esta estrategia y con el objetivo de obtener su beatificación, se construyó la personalidad del padre Santiago mediante palabras e imágenes –retratos o, en sus honras fúnebres, jeroglíficos que lo representaban equiparándolo a santos jesuitas– que se multiplicaron a su muerte, junto con episodios milagrosos narrados en su biografía. Se publicó entonces la que habría sido su obra póstuma, ‘Las...

BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH EDITION This charming, gift-worthy 6 x 6-inch paperback presents a wide selection of beautifully tinted photographic postcards of and by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos, in the early 1900s. Often reproduced with stamps, postmarks and handwriting perfectly preserved, these fascinating relics depict life on the Argentine prairie with documentary candor as well as romantic aplomb. Here we find many photographs of the gauchos with their horses, at their ranches, playing their guitars and courting their wives. Cows are quartered, houses are raised, rivers forged and duels...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by...

In 1313, a boy named Grimpow discovers the frozen body of a man carrying an enigmatic stone that will lead him on a quest that will change his life forever.