The La Esfera de los Libros publishes 'Felipe II, Man, king, myth', by Enrique Martínez Ruiz, his great editorial commitment for this fall.
(...) The historical importance of a figure could be measured by the relevance of the legends generated around it. Felipe II would be at the top of the list, since two totally opposite visions coexist about him that magnify and distort him: the black, pejorative, and the golden, apologetic. The origin of both is located in the judgments and opinions expressed on the monarch at the end of his reign, explains the Complutense professor Enrique Martínez Ruiz, author of the monumental biography Felipe II. Man, king, myth, the great editorial commitment of La Esfera de los Libros for this fall.
A thousand pages profusely illustrated and documented on the character, his work and his time, a "global vision" of the monarch, whom Martínez Ruiz, one of the most renowned specialists in the period, describes "as a man of his time, that is, a Renaissance prince, who is formed as such and who becomes the most powerful monarch of his time, ruling territories in the four then-known continents and over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans » (...)
