El modo de ser aristocrático

Para el Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (IDPC), resulta de gran relevancia esta publicación sobre la historia del hoy extinto Parque del Centenario. Inaugurado en 1883 en conmemoración del natalicio del Libertador Simón Bolívar, este espacio se construyó inicialmente para honrar la figura fundacional de la república y contó con las ideas y participación en el diseño y ejecución de grandes personajes y artífices de la época, como Pietro Cantini, Luigi Ramelli, Alberto Urdaneta y Antoine Desprey. Años más tarde, y hasta la década de 1930, el parque se posicionó como...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru--an account of the Spanish conquest of Peru by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire--features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.