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Philip the Second of Spain

Martin Hume

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For three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip the Second 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...

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holy roman empire, machiavelli, prussia, habsburg, medici, louis xiv, italian wars, renaissance