Thanks to Braveheart , winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, which Mel Gibson directed, produced and starred in, we all know the Scottish national hero William Wallace . The film, with abundant artistic licenses and some historical overtones, is based on the epic poem «The Actes and Deidis of the Il
Alexander VI was a Roman Pope who occupied the seat of Saint Peter in the period 1492-1521 and who would stand out as one of the most significant figures of the Renaissance. Abandoning the evangelical model of life, the Renaissance pontiffs were more concerned with their political projection and sta
In Basel, the French Directory was relatively generous because it needed the Spanish navy, which was the third largest in the world. He returned to the traditional alliance of France and Spain against England, this started the alliance with Napoleon. This is the meaning of the San Ildefonso treaty (
The discovery in 1879 by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola of the paintings in the Altamira Cave , two kilometers from the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, is the most important moment in modern archaeological research and at the time involved a total revision of the perception of the life and cust