title: Razones para iluminar la enfermedad/ Reasons as a Light in the Time of Illness (Nueva Alianza Minor/ New Alliance Minor) (Spanish Edition)
author: Jose Luis Martin Descalzo
description: Jos Luis Martn Descalzo experiment en carne propia la enfermedad durante los ltimos ocho aos de su vida. Aquella circunstancia vital, que para muchas personas suele ser causa de desesperanza, fue vivida por l como tiempo de gracia. No sin dificultades, Martn Descalzo mantuvo la dignidad ante el sufrimiento que anunci
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  A CONTINENT’S CHALLENGE, A COUNTRY’S HOPE
  
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  [DEDICATION](index_split_003.html#filepos2815)
  
  FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [EPIGRAPH](index_split_003.html#filepos2905)
  
  > Dalle quali cose e da assai altre a queste simiglianti o maggiori nacquero
  > diverse paure e imaginazioni in quegli che rimanevano vivi, e tutti quasi a
  > un fine tiravano assai crudele, ciò era di schifare e di fuggire gl’infermi
  > e le lor cose; e così faccendo, si credeva ciascuno a sé medesimo salute
  > acquistare.
  
  > In which circumstances, not to speak of many others of a similar or even
  > graver complexion, divers apprehensions and imaginations were engendered in
  > the minds of such as were left alive, inclining almost all of them to the
  > same harsh resolution, to wit, to shun and abhor all contact with the sick
  > and all that belonged to them, thinking thereby to make each his own health
  > secure.
  
  > > —GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO,
  
  
  The Decameron,
  
  > > > TRANS. J. M. RIGG