Wer ist Mona Lisa? – Identifizierung einer Unbekannten mit Hilfe historischer Quellen
als Buch bei amazon.de: 172 Seiten, mit Stammtafeln und 136 Bildern (130 Bilder in Farbe), Independently published, 1. Auflage, ISBN 978-1-9831-3666-5, € 29,31
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Er war der Mann, der die Regierungsgeschäfte für den spanischen König Philipp IV. übernahm: "The man to whom Philip handed his conscience ... on the first day of his reign, was nearly twenty years his senior. An indefatigable worker, with an ambition as voracious as his industry ... He was vehement and voluble, arrogant and impatient even with the King ... a King to whom pleasure was a business: and a minister to whom business alone was pleasure, who loved the reality of rule whilst his master loved the ceremonial of it. ... the hand of Olivares was everywhere. From handing the King his shirt in the morning and drawing his bed curtains at night, to deciding peace and war for the nation, the Count-Duke [Gaspar de Guzmán] did everything." (in: Martin Hume: The Court of Philip IV. - Spain in Decadence. London 1907, pp. 47-48/236).
"He was the finest horseman in Spain, and he treated men as he treated his big-boned chargers, breaking them to obedience by force of will and persistence." (in: Martin Hume: The Court of Philip IV. - Spain in Decadence. London 1907, p. 48)
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Lucrezia Borgia – Das Leben einer Papsttochter in der Renaissance
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