by Harold Lamb · Planeta Deagostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439582519
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«Carlomagno» is the historical novel by Harold Lamb, published by Planeta Deagostini in hardcover (327 pages, in Spanish).
Historical novel about Charles, son of Pepin the Short, who forged an empire from the Pyrenees to Constantinople and halted the Muslim advance. It shows a king who protected culture and the sciences, founded schools and monasteries, but whose dissolute private life, with numerous mistresses, earned him the nickname of adulterer. He went down in history as Charlemagne.
Translation by Hernán Sabaté. Original work «Charlemagne: The Legend and the Man» (1954). Spanish edition of 1999.
For readers interested in medieval history and biographies of great rulers, narrated in the style of a historical novel.
Harold Albert Lamb was an American writer, novelist, historian, and screenwriter. In both his fiction and nonfiction work, Lamb gravitated toward subjects related to Asia and the Middle East.
