by Toti Martínez de Lezea · EMBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496231429
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«La abadesa: María, la Excelenta» is the historical novel by Toti Martínez de Lezea, published by Embolsillo in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The plot begins in 1517, when María Esperanza, abbess in Madrigal, receives a papal brief recognizing her as the illegitimate daughter of Ferdinand the Catholic. Separated from her mother at age seven, the protagonist revisits the past while traveling to Bilbao and encounters Juana, imprisoned in Tordesillas, her stepsister María, and Charles I.
The work belongs to the Biblioteca Toti Martínez de Lezea collection from Embolsillo; this edition was published in 2008.
For readers of historical fiction interested in early 16th-century Spain and the figures of Ferdinand the Catholic, Juana I, and Charles I.
Esperanza Martínez de Lezea García is a Spanish writer who writes both in Spanish and Basque. She is a certified translator in French, English and German. She is also a television presenter and actor; she is one of the founders of the Kukubiltxo theatre company.
