Son Of The Alhambra
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Son Of The Alhambra
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Author : Erika Spivakovsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10
Son Of The Alhambra written by Erika Spivakovsky and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades. This account of Mendoza's diplomatic career is a living commentary on the mid-sixteenth century, the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Reformation, with its upheavals in the European balance of power. Mendoza served as ambassador of Charles V to Venice and Rome and as governor of Siena. His political life complements the reign of the Emperor whose ambition was to become a universal monarch. An interesting contradiction in Mendoza's thought—his humanist theories versus personal ambition—prevented him from successful implemention of tyrannical imperial policies. His role in the government of the Holy Roman Empire shows how the exertion of imperialist power, humanist ethics notwithstanding, inevitably entails corruption, hypocrisy, greed, and imbalance in the one who tries to wield this power. Gifted to the point of universal genius, Mendoza was perhaps the foremost representative of the splendid but little-known epoch of Spanish humanism, the era between the death of Queen Isabel (1504) and the abdication of her grandson Charles V (1556). Spain's short-lived Renaissance came to an abrupt end with the accession of Philip II and the almost simultaneous onset of the Counter Reformation. To this changed Spain, under monolithic thought control now exacted and enforced by monarch and Inquisition, Mendoza returned to live the last third of his life, mostly in obscurity, and in the last few years in royal disgrace. Based on primary sources, this first biography of Mendoza in English also examines the relevance of some of Don Diego's disputed literary works to the legend that grew up around him as a spokesman for latent unorthodox opinion.
Son Of The Alhambra
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Author : Erika Spivakovsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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The Alhambra
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
The Alhambra written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.
The Alhambra Told To Children
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Author : Ricardo Villa-Real
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Alhambra Told To Children written by Ricardo Villa-Real and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Granada (Spain) categories.
Tales Of The Alhambra
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Tales Of The Alhambra written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with categories.
After his arrival in Spain, Washington Irving begins a tour of Andalusian lands. During his visit to Granada, he is ecstatic by the majesty of the Alhambra in whose rooms he is fortunate to stay. There he meets various characters who will accompany him during his stay in Granada. From the conversations with them and the stories he hears from his faithful servant and guide, Mateo Jiménez will transcribe legends and traditions passed down from father to son for generations. In this way, with his Tales from the Alhambra, Washington Irving wrote a rich and detailed chronicle of Spain in the first half of the 19th century and above all, he knew how to convey the magic and mystery of an entire era.
Tales Of The Alhambra For Children
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01
Tales Of The Alhambra For Children written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Alhambra
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
The Alhambra written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Spain categories.
The Alhambra Decree
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Author : David Raphael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Alhambra Decree written by David Raphael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
A historical novel about the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
Tales Of The Alhambra
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-08-21
Tales Of The Alhambra written by Washington Irving and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-21 with categories.
Rough draughts of some of the following tales and essays were actually written during a residence in the Alhambra; others were subsequently added, founded on notes and observations made there. Care was taken to maintain local coloring and verisimilitude; so that the whole might present a faithful and living picture of that microcosm, that singular little world into which I had been fortuitously thrown; and about which the external world had a very imperfect idea. It was my endeavor scrupulously to depict its half Spanish, half Oriental character; its mixture of the heroic, the poetic, and the grotesque; to revive the traces of grace and beauty fast fading from its walls; to record the regal and chivalrous traditions concerning those who once trod its courts; and the whimsical and superstitious legends of the motley race now burrowing among its ruins.
The Alhambra
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
The Alhambra written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with American literature categories.