Philip II of Spain

ISBN: 9781330396858 出版年：2016 页码：281 Martin A S Hume Forgotten Books

For three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. Of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point Of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment Of a system than as an individual man swayed by changing circumstances and controlled by human frailties.