by Geoffrey Parker · Altaya · tapa dura · ISBN 9788448706425
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«Felipe II» is the historical biography by Geoffrey Parker, published in 1996 by Altaya in hardcover (294 pages, in Spanish).
A documented biography of Philip II, based on his personal papers, portraying the monarch who ruled an empire across Europe, the Americas and the Philippines for four decades. Parker analyzes the monarch's politics, his religiosity and his ties to the arts, and includes episodes such as the attempted invasion of England with the Spanish Armada.
This Spanish-language edition of the English original Philip II is part of the Grandes Obras de Historia collection.
For readers interested in historical biography, the Hispanic monarchy and the 16th century.
Noel Geoffrey Parker is an English historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during the early modern era. His best-known book is The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988.
