Known to Spanish readers as Jerómin, this half-history, half-novel follows the illegitimate son of the Emperor Charles V from a secret childhood in the household of Luis Quijada and Doña Magdalena de Ulloa to recognition at the court of his half-brother Philip II, command of the fleet against the Turks and the governorship of the Netherlands.
A vivid Spanish Jesuit’s portrait of a Renaissance prince, for readers of history who enjoy a novelist’s touch. Download the free EPUB.