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Excerpt from Cuentos de Navidad y Reyes; Cuentos de la Patria; Cuentos Antiguos <p>Bajo el manto de estrellas de una noche espléndida y glacial, Roma se extiende mos trando a trechos la mancha de sombra de sus misteriosos jardines de cipreses y laureles se culares que tantas cosas han visto, y, en islotes más amplios, la clara blancura de sus monu mentos, envolviendo, como un sudario, el ca daver de la Historia. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.