Count-Duke Of Olivares

John H. Elliott

Encuadernado: Rústica
Editorial: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300044997
PVP: 32.50 €
Páginas: 761




 Winner of the 1986 Wolfson Prize in History



A masterful biography of Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count Duke of Olivares - righthand advisor to Spain’s Philip IV, archrival of Cardinal Richelieu, and a central figure in seventeenth-century Europe. Written by the eminent historian J. H. Elliott and based on many original sources, this elegant book is a landmark in the study of a man and an age.


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