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* On Calle de Toledo near La Puerta Cerrada, Madrid
1 Papeles del alfrez Balboa (Lieutenant Balboas Papers). Manuscript of 478 pages, Madrid, undated. Sold by the Claymore auction house in London, November 25, 1952. Currently located in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.
2 The disappearance a posteriori of the two most documented references to Captain Diego Alatriste y Tenorio known to this date is extraordinary. While the testament of igo Balboa and the study of the painting The Surrender of Breda by Velzquez prove that the captains image was, for unknown reasons, erased from the canvas on a date later than winter of 1634, we have a first version of a play by Pedro Caldern de la Barca titled The Siege of Breda , and in it, too, there are signs of later manipulation. This first complete version, contemporaneous to the date of the first performance of the play in Madridwhich was written around 1626and coinciding along general lines with the manuscript copy of the original made by Diego Lpez de Mora in 1632, contains some forty lines that were suppressed in the definitive version. In them explicit reference is made to the death of Colonel don Pedro de la Daga and to the defense of the Terheyden redoubt carried out by Diego Alatriste, whose name is quoted two times in the text. The original fragment, discovered by Professor Klaus Oldenbarnevelt of the Instituto de Estudios Hispnicos at the University of Utrecht, is housed in the archive and library of the Duques del Nuevo Extremo in Seville, and we reproduce it in the appendix at the end of this volume with the kind permission of doa Macarena Bruner de Lebrija, Duquesa del Nuevo Extremo. What is odd is that those forty lines disappear in the canonical version of the work published in 1636 in Madrid by Jos Caldern, brother of the author, in Primera parte de Comedias de don Pedro Caldern de la Barca . The reason for Alatristes disappearance in the play about the siege of Breda, as well as in the Velzquez painting, has to this date not been explained. Unless it was in response to an express order attributable perhaps to King Philip IV or, more likely, the Conde Duque de Olivares, whose disfavor Diego Alatriste may have incurred, again for reasons unknown to us, between 1634 and 1636.
THE SUN OVER BREDA
Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author ARTURO PREZ-REVERTE began his career as a war journalist, but now writes fiction full-time. His seven books, including The Queen of the South and Captain Alatriste , have been translated into more than twenty-nine languages in more than fifty countries. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide.
the Adventures of Captain Alatriste
Hard-boiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining.
Time
Wonderful, stirring entertainment.
The New York Times Book Review
Its great fun in the tradition of historical swashbucklers such as The Three Musketeers or The Scarlet Pimpernel .
The Boston Globe
Few contemporary writers conjure up derring-do as well as Arturo Prez-Reverte, a Spanish literary maestro. The true thrill lies in Prez-Revertes deft plotting and thread-the-needle resolutions.
The Christian Science Monitor
Thrilling.
Detroit Free Press
Grabs the reader from the get-go with its moody evocation of a lost time.
USA Today
A feast of dark historical detail and believable danger in which celebrated historical figures, such as poet Francisco de Quevedo and painter Velzquez, are mixed in for authentic flavor.
The Denver Post
Intrigue and double-dealing in seventeenth-century MadridPrez-Reverte is a master at evoking the particular color of the times, with brothels, taverns, torero arenas, and dark alleyways.
Los Angeles Times
ARTURO PREZ-REVERTE
Captain Alatriste
The Flanders Panel
The Club Dumas
The Seville Communion
The Fencing Master
The Nautical Chart
The Queen of the South
Purity of Blood
A PLUME BOOK
PLUME
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Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Previously published in a Putnam edition.
Copyright Arturo Prez-Reverte, 2007
Excerpt from The Kings Gold copyright Arturo Prez-Reverte, 2008
All rights reserved
REGISTERED TRADEMARKMARCA REGISTRADA
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Putnam edition as follows:
Prez-Reverte, Arturo.
[Sol de Breda. English]
The sun over Breda / Arturo Prez-Reverte.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-4295-6754-6
I. Title.
PQ6666.E765S6513 2007 2007000541
863'.64dc22
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For Jean Schalekamp,
damned heretic, translator, and friend
A troop of soldiers marches by:
strong, bearded, weapons shouldered,
following their captains lead.
Spanish captain, who knew Flanders,
Mexico, Italy, and the Andes,
Of what exploits are left to dream?
C. S. DEL RO ,
La esfera
Pon my oath, the canals of these Dutch are damp on autumn mornings. Somewhere above the curtain of fog that veiled the dike, a blurred sun shone palely on the silhouettes moving along the road in the direction of the city, now opening its gates for the morning market. That sun was a cold, Calvinist, invisible star unworthy of the name, its dirty gray light falling on oxcarts, countrymen laden with baskets of vegetables, women in white headdresses carrying cheeses and jugs of milk.
I was slowly making my way through the mist with my knapsacks over my shoulder, my teeth clenched to keep them from chattering. I took a quick look at the embankment of the dike where fog blended into the water, and could spy nothing but vague brushstrokes of rushes, grass, and trees. It is true that for a moment I thought I glimpsed a dull reflection of metal, perhaps a morion or cuirass or even naked steel, but it was only for an instant and then the humid breath rising from the canal closed over it again. The girl walking by my side must also have seen it, because she shot me an uneasy glance from beneath the folds of the scarf that covered most of her head and face. She then turned her eyes toward the Dutch sentinels, outfitted with breastplate, helmet, and halberd, whom we could now make outdark gray upon grayat the outer gate of the wall, beside the drawbridge.
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