Excerpt from Cuentos de Navidad y Reyes; Cuentos de la Patria; Cuentos Antiguos 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.