History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella

by William Hickling Prescott

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1873. Prescott, is a renowned American historian who chronicled the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. Engrossed by the history of Spain, he committed himself to tracing its development into a world power. Employing secretaries to read him manuscripts sent from Spanish archives, Prescott set about writing a work of sound scholarship that would also interest a general audience. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, enjoyed tremendous critical and popular success show more on both sides of the Atlantic. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. show less

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This edition is abridged from three volumes to one of 294 pages hardback. Missing are Prescott's voluminous footnotes, details of battles and court life, and other matter of little general current interest. Prescott himself began an abridgment due to economic considerations but did not complete it.

This is masterly writing of history, comparable to his histories of the conquests of the Aztecs and of the Incas, missing only some of the swashbuckling adventure appearing in those two.

With her intelligence and firm dedication to her subjects, Isabella is the finest figure in this period of Spanish history, possibly the best epoch ever for the average Spaniard, despite the great stain of the Inquisition.
HISTORIA DEL REINADO DE LOS REYES CATÓLICOS, D. FERNANDO Y Dª ISABEL

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INTERESANTE es, y aun novelesca, la historia entera
de la nacion Española; brillantes páginas se admiran
en ella; ninguna hay, sin embargo, tan brillante,
ninguna tan novelesca, ninguna tan interesante como
el reinado de los reves católicos don Fernando y
doña Isabel. En su tiempo fue, cuando, concluida
la reconquista de la peninsula, llegó esta á consti
tuirse en una sola y poderosa monarquía ; en su tiempo,
cuando las vencedoras armas de Castilla adquirie
ron en Italia nuevos y brillantes lauros; en su tiempo
finalmente, y este es uno de los cuadros históricos
mas sorprendentes que presentarse pueden, un oscuro
pero atrevido navegante, protejido show more por una débil
mujer y un humilde religioso, dió cima, á despecho
de iun desconfiado monarca, á despecho de los que
se llamaban sábios, á despecho de los elementos
mismos, al provecto mas grande, al mas audaz que
hombre afguno haya jamas concebido, y que dió por
resultado el descubrimiento, la creacion puede decirse
de un nuevo mundo, y su adquisicion para la
corona de Castilla. A pesar de la magnitud de estos
acontecimientos, y esto sin hacernos cargo de los que...
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HISTORIA DEL REINADO DE LOS REYES CATÓLICOS D. FERNANDO Y Dª ISABEL

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Religion & Spirituality
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946.03History & geographyHistory of EuropeSpain & PortugalSpainFerdinand V and Isabella 1479-1516
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DP162 .P8History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaSpain – PortugalHistory of SpainHistoryBy periodModern Spain, 1479/1516-1479-1516. Fernando V and Isabel I
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