Charles de Brosses (Dijon, 1709-1770) is one of the brightest prosists in his century. Thanks to the erudition of him was one of the greatest collors of the Encyclopedia, whose contributions were essential in history, linguistics, geography, art, politics and music. Known as president of Brosses was one of the most influential politicians in pre-revolutionary France, as well as the first president of the Burgundy Parliament.

On Saturday, May 30, 1739, Brosses left Italy, on a trip to study and pleasure that would last until the spring of 1740. In Bologna he met Pope Clemente, chemist Beccari and Astronomer Zanotti; He departed in Florence with the Certi scholars and Niccolini. He visited Modena to the Muratori historian. He became friends with Vivaldi, he heard Tartini, ate with the king of England, argued in Latin with the sapying Agnesi, he rendered visit the courtesans of Venice, he burned his shoes in the Vesuvius crater and got hanging from a basket in The ruins of Herculano. No spec-
Tracker or curiosity, he saw and heard infinity of things, and almost all told them that he sent Dijon's friends.
This epistollar, which we present full first time in Spanish, sum of French illustrated thinking, is one of the literary works that has had the greatest influence in writers such as Stendhal, Nietzsche, Jünger, among others, who admired his ingenuity, humor and her gifts of psychological penetration.

"If I wrote for glory, I would make ten pages in a serious, neological and moral style (...). But my heavy amplification would make a strange contrast with the living and light prose of Mr. President Brosses, who did not think that one day would be Published; immense advantage, which redoubles the susisher of a fool and the means of liking a man of wit. "
Stendhal.