Author: Luis ColomaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Story of Don John of Austria
Author: Luis ColomaThe Story of Don John of Austria (Classic Reprint)
Author: Luis ColomaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780282210632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of Don John of AustriaAs on the walls of some tapestried chamber the author displays the Story of Don John of Austria from his engaging childhood to his saintly death. The light as it shines on this Prince Charming, also falls on thosegreat ones of his time who were his friends or foes, and on the multitude of their servants and followers, lingering most lovingly on beautiful Doha Magdalena de Ulloa, as it glints on the golden texture of her unselfish life. In the woof of the background the author has woven many homely touches, which seem to make the figures live again, and, shaking off the dust of more than three centuries, to leave the arras as in some Pavilion d'armide.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
Don John of Austria
Author: Charles PetriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Don John of Austria
Author: Margaret YeoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999170649
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Biographical novel of the of Don John of Austria, leader of the European forces in the Battle of Lepanto. This biographical novel covers the story of his whole life.
Don John of Austria, or Passages from the History of the Sixteenth Century, 1547-1578
Author: George William CoxPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385324955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Story of Don John of Austria (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Luis ColomaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406882377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Coloma (1851-1914) was a Spanish author whose works included novels, short stories and biographies. In 1908 he became a member of the Real Academia. This semi-fictionalised biography of Don John of Austria (1547-78), an illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and half-brother of Philip II of Spain, was published as Jeromin (1902) in the original Spanish and appeared in this English translation in 1912.
The Last Crusader
Author: Louis De WohlPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586174142
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Don Juan of Austria, one of history’s most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant’s hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as his half-brother, the attractive youth quickly became a central figure in a Court where intrigues and romances abounded. Don Juan’s intelligence, kindness and devout attachment to the Church enabled him to live in an environment of unscathed luxury, violence and treachery. De Wohl paints in brilliant color scenes at the Court of King Philip, Juan’s campaign against barbaric Moriscos in Andalusia and the climatic victory at Lepanto where he saved the Christian world from Islamic dominance. The Last Crusader abounds in vivid scenes and characters. Who can forget the sadisitic nature of the Prince of Asturias, the spirituality of Fray Juan de Calahorra, the scheming of beautiful Princess Ana of Eboli, the barbaric siege of Malta, or Emperor Charles the Fifth waiting for death, in his stygian throne room? Here is a novel of high adventure which brings to life the turbulence of the sixteenth century with its extremities of the wickedness and piety, its sins of pride and conquest, its seething heresies. With his strong talent for exciting historical narrative, Louis de Wohl adds another great dynamic novel to his already lustrous career.
The Last Knight of Europe
Author: Gloria GoddardThe Story of Don John of Austria
Author: Luis ColomaNobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII
Author: Plinio Corrêa de OliveiraPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Explores the role of the nobility and analogous traditional elites in contemporary society.