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city in Italy destroyed by Attila in 452.

Fishburn and Hughes: "An ancient town in central Italy near the shores of the Adriatic, founded by the Romans in the second century BC. From its position it was a strategic base for expeditions to the north east of the Roman empire. In 12-10 BC, for example, during the wars against Pannonia, Augustus established himself for a time in Aquileia. In the third century it became an episcopal see; its bishops expounded The Three Chapters (a collection of writings on the divinity of Jesus). In 452 it was razed to the ground by Attila, king of the Huns. The presence of the Histrionic heresy in Aquileia, obviously apocryphal, could be an allusion to Pope Virgilius' condemnation of The Three Chapters in 548; they were later pronounced heretical at the Council of Constantinople in 553. Aquileia eventually broke with Rome, and its bishop Macedonius took the title Patriarch in defiance of Rome. It remained schismatic until the seventh century." (14)

epic of Achilles, Iliad

Achilles, hero in Greek myth and literature.

Fishburn and Hughes: "In the Iliad, the bravest and strongest of the Greek heroes who fought in the Trojan war. Achilles was the son of the sea nymph Thetis, one of the Nereids, and endowed with superhuman qualities." (3)

character in Bustos Domecq story

Parodi: "el nombre de la supuesta partera está construido a partir del apellido del arzobispo católico Octavio Nicolás Derisi (1907−2002) y del nombre del filósofo Tomás de Aquino (1225−1274). Octavio N. Derisi fue un renombrado especialista de la obra de Santo Tomás; fundó y dirigió la revista Sapientia; intervino en la creación de la Sociedad Tomista Argentina y de la Universidad Católica Argentina, de la que fue primer rector" (159).

Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian and scholastic philosopher, 1225-74, author of the Summa Theologiae, the Summa Catholicae Fidei contra Gentiles and other works

Aquitaine, ancient province of France

Argentine literary scholar, 1917-1995

Arabian peninsula, now mostly in Saudi Arabia

Arabian Gulf

Fishburn and Hughes: "A reference to the Persian Gulf." (14)

region of northern Spain, formerly a separate kingdom

Parodi: “La colección Araluce”: Araluce fue una casa editorial fundada por Ramón de San Nicolás Araluce, nacido en Santander en 1865. A los 15 años se fugó de su casa y viajó a México, donde trabajó en una editorial en la que comenzó como aprendiz, ascendió a gerente y finalmente fue su propietario. En 1900 trasladó la editorial a Barcelona, donde continuó sus ediciones hasta 1941, el año de su muerte. La editorial dejó de funcionar a fines de los años cincuenta. La colección Araluce constaba de tres series de obras, todas de tipo enciclopédico, dirigidas al público infantil, en volúmenes ilustrados, abreviados y adaptados a los niños, con un lenguaje accesible. Una de las colecciones −Los Grandes Hechos de los Grandes Hombres− publicó 45 títulos; la serie Páginas Brillantes de la Historia contaba con 39 títulos; la de mayor éxito y difusión fue Obras Maestras al Alcance de los Niños que editó 93 obras de la literatura universal. (415)

English philologist and murderer, 1704-1759, subject of works by Thomas Hood and Bulwer Lytton

Argentine general and president, 1903-1970, kidnapped and killed by the Montoneros, here mentioned as the leader of the Revolución Libertadora of 1955

street in Buenos Aires.

Fishburn and Hughes: "A street in Buenos Aires, in the vicinity of the penitentiary of Las Heras. In the 1930s it was a street of small houses inhabited by the impoverished middle class." (15)

town in Uruguay north of Salto

Araucanian Indians, old name for Mapuches.

Fishburn and Hughes: Araucanian (Araucano) "An Indian people who originated in central Chile and spread to Argentina as far as the pampas of Buenos Aires province, where they merged with the existing Pampa Indians. The Araucanians, who still survive in Chile and Argentina, are mostly Mapuche, the brave people who fought against the Spanish invaders and whose leader, Lautaro, defeated Pedro de Valdavia in 1553. Persecution turned them against the colonists and their descendants, and they prevented the expansion of white colonisation. They were finally defeated in the 'Conquest of the Desert' (1879-80), when they were dispersed and their way of life was all but exterminated. In spite of the adulteration of modern life, the Araucanians retain their culture and traditional beliefs. Officially Catholic, they still worship their gods and the spirit of their ancestors, believing in power over death and the medicine of the shamans. Araucanian is one of the many native tongues spoken in Spanish America." (15)

town in Mesopotamia near Nineveh, now called Arbil, where Alexander the Great fought a battle