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The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the dramatic human story of the extraordinary projection of Spanish might in the second half of the sixteenth century has never been fully told--until now. In World Without End, Hugh Thomas chronicles the lives, loves, conflicts, and conquests of the complex men and women who carved up the Americas for the glory of Spain.
Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called the arbiter of the world. Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, Emperor Charles V,...
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Copyright 2014 by Hugh Thomas
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Originally published in 2014 in the United Kindom by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books.
ISBN9780812998115
eBook ISBN9780812998122
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Cover design: Anna Bauer
Cover images: The Expedition to the Isle of Terceira, 1582 (Monasterio de El Escorial, Spain, Leemage/Bridgeman Images); frame motif (Granger, New York)
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Here I cannot forbear to commend the patient virtue of the Spaniards. We seldom or never find any nation hath endured so many misadventures and miseries as the Spaniards have done in their Indian discoveries. Yet persisting in their enterprises, with invincible constancy, they have annexed to their kingdom so many goodly provinces as bury the remembrance of all dangers past. Tempests and shipwrecks, famines, overthrows, mutinies, heat and cold, pestilence and all manner of diseases both old and new, together with extreme poverty and want of all things needful have been the enemies, wherewith every one of their most noble discoveries, at one or other, hath encountered. Many years have passed over some of their heads in the search of not so many leagues: yea, more than one have spent their labour, their wealth and their lives in search of a golden kingdom without getting further notice of it than what they had at their setting forth. All which notwithstanding, the third, the fourth and fifth undertakers have not been disheartened. Surely they are worthily rewarded with those treasures and paradises, which they enjoy, and well deserve to hold them quietly, if they hinder not the like virtue in others, which (perhaps) will not be found.
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Since the fall of the Roman empire (omitting that of the Germans which had neither greatness nor continuance) there hath been no state fearful in the East but that of the Turk; nor in the West any prince that hath spread his wings far over his nest but the Spaniards who since the time that Ferdinand expelled the Moors out of Granada have made many attempts to make themselves masters of all Europe.
Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World
BOOK ONE
Old Spain
BOOK TWO
Spain Imperial
BOOK THREE
The Imperial Backcloth
BOOK FOUR
The East in Fee
. The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrsis and the embrace of Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain, 23 April 1559, French School, sixteenth century. (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. Tournament during which Henry II was injured by the Count of Montgomery, 30 June 1559. Coloured engraving by Franz Hogenberg (1540c. 1590). (Bibliothque nationale de France / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. Philip II of Spain by Sofonisba Anguissola, 1565 and 1573. (Prado Museum, Madrid / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. Mara Manuela of Portugal by Anthonis Mor (15171577). (akg-images / Album / Oronoz)
. Mary Tudor by Anthonis Mor, 1554. (Prado Museum, Madrid / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. Elizabeth of Valois by Alonso Snchez Coello, 1570. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. Anne of Austria, Queen of Spain by Sofonisba Anguissola, 1573. (Prado Museum, Madrid / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. The Alczar of Madrid by Anton van den Wyngaerde, 1569. From a series of views of Spanish cities created under Philip II. (akg-images / Eric Lessing)
Holanda, c. 1575 (By courtesy of the Marquess of Salisbury / Hatfield House)
. Don John of Austria by Alonso Snchez Coello (153188). (culture-images/Lebrecht)
. Fernandez Alvaro de Toledo, Great Duke of Alba by Titian (c. 14901576). (Copyright SuperStock / SuperStock)
. Francisco de Toledo by unknown 18th-century artist. (Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru. Photograph by Enrique Quispe)
. Gaspar de Ziga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey, 1596. (Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico. CONACULTA.-INAH.-MEX; reproduced by permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Mexico)
. Don Martn Enrquez de Almansa. (Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico. CONACULTA.-INAH.-MEX; reproduced by permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Mexico)
. Luis de Velasco II. (Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico. CONACULTA.-INAH.-MEX; reproduced by permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Mexico)
. Laying of the first stone of Mexico cathedral in 1562. Detail of manuscript illustration from the Codex Tlatelolco. (Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologa e Historia INAH Mexico)
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. The Kukulkan Pyramid in Chichen Itza, known as El Castillo. (Iberfoto / Photoaisa)
. Courtyard of the monastery, San Francisco Church, Quito, Ecuador. (akg-images / Gilles Mermet)
. Potos (Copyright Ritterback / AGE Fotostock)
. Fortress ruins at Portobelo, Panama (Copyright JJM Stock Photography / Travel / Alamy)
. Alonso de Ercilla y Ziga by El Greco, c. 1577. (akg-images / RIA Novosti)
and Child by Bernardo Bitti (15481610). (Paul Maeyaert / Iberfoto / Photoaisa)
. Unin de la descendencia imperial incaica con la casa de los Loyola y San Borja by Cusco School, 1718. (Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, Peru)
. The corn stone, basalt artefact originating from Mexico. Aztec Civilisation, fourteenthsixteenth century. (Copyright DEA Picture Library / Age Fotostock)
. Nicotiana (tobacco) by Adam Lonicer (152886). From Codex plantarum. (Bibliothque nationale de France)
. Papas peruanorum; Serpillum citratum and Thymus vulgatior from Hortus eystettensis by Basil Besler, 1613. (Bibliothque nationale de France)
. Scenes of agriculture and the textile industry from the sixteenth-century Codex Osuna (Copyright Iberfoto / Superstock)
. Gold objects in an Aztec shop from the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagun, c. 154085. From Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espaa. (Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library)
. Caribbean slaves working the sugar cane. Engraved by Theodor de Bry, 1590. (Copyright DEA Picture Library / AGE Fotostock)
. Nuez de Balboa throws a number of Indians who committed the sin of sodomy, to the hounds. Engraving by Theodor de Bry from America pars quarta, Frankfurt 1594. (akg-images)
. Illustration showing punishments applied to the Indians from the sixteenth-century Codex Osuna, gathered by Jernimo de Valderrama 15635. (M.C. Esteban/ Iberfoto / Photoaisa)
. Europe in the late sixteenth century
. The Spanish and Portuguese empires, c. 15701600
. The division of the world as laid down in 14934
. The Routes to the Indies
. Yucatan in the sixteenth century
. Monasteries and convents in New Spain (Mexico)
. The Journey of Ursa and Aguirre
. Supreme courts (
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