Philip II
William Thomas Walsh, [Walsh, William Thomas]
BEFORE the ominous year 1527, when his son Philip was born, His Sacred Caesarial Catholic Majesty Charles V seemed more fortunate, almost, than any man could safely be. Ruler of the vastest Empire the world had ever known, husband at twenty-six of the most beautiful woman in Europe, he was prolonging an idyllic honeymoon in the incredible halls and gardens of the Alhambra, while the crazy world rushed onward to its own doom, or took its troubles to his council at Toledo.
Living in a palace that Solomon might envy, with no reasonable human desire unsatisfied, he must have had occasion often enough to thank the spirits of his immortal grandparents, Ferdinand and Isabel, for such a summer as he could never hope to enjoy again. It was they who had conquered this fertile vega that he looked down on, those snow-capped mountains all about, these incomparable terraces and bowers where the nightingales sang among the oleanders in the moonlight. It was from one of these shady tiled courts of dead caliphs that they had had the good sense to send Columbus over the western ocean to add whole continents to the Spain they had resurrected and freed from the yoke of eight centuries.
Year:
2014
Language:
english
File:
EPUB, 2.55 MB
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english, 2014
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