by Benito Pérez Galdós · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467028454
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Napoleon in Chamartín is a masterpiece by Benito Pérez Galdós, belonging to the most important and significant collection of stories and proverbs of the Spanish Middle Ages. This book remains a work full of charm and freshness. The unique transmission of El conde Lucanor is reflected in the complete critical apparatus in which Guillermo Serés selects and judges the textual variants. The introduction to each story traces in detail the origin of the text and critically reviews the various interpretations that have been given to it. All points of literary, linguistic and historical interest are the object of an annotation treatment carried out with an amplitude and depth that had not been dedicated to them to date.
Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord, Duke and lastly Prince of Villena. He married three times, choosing his wives for political and economic convenience, and worked to match his children with partners associated with royalty. Juan Manuel became one of the richest and most powerful men of his time, coining his own currency as the kings did. During his life, he was criticised for choosing literature as his vocation, an activity thought inferior for a nobleman of such prestige.
