Cuatro príncipes: Enrique VIII, Francisco I, Carlos V, Solimán el Magnífico y las obsesiones que forjaron la Europa moderna

The Four Men Who Decided the Fate of a Continent. Four great princes were born within the space of a decade: Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Germany and I of Spain, and Suleiman the Magnificent. All of them left a profound mark on the history of their kingdoms. They could not have been more different from one another, but together, they ruled the world. At the beginning of the 16th century, an era marked by the Renaissance, the beginnings of Protestantism, the Wars of Religion, and the expansion of Western dominion toward the Atlantic, these four kings, sometimes allies, often enemies, and always rivals, laid the foundations for modern Europe. From the scandals of Henry VIII's six wives to the monasticism of Charles V; from the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the splendid gathering of tournaments, feasts, and balls so lavish it nearly emptied the coffers of France and England, to the celebratory pyramid that Suleiman erected with two thousand human heads after the Battle of Mohács; from the From the six-fingered hand of Anne Boleyn, a supposed sign of her condition as a witch, to the true story of the Maltese falcon, historian John Julius Norwich offers us in Four Princes a fascinating story of stories through the lives of these four magnificent monarchs and their reigns, which changed the destiny of the European continent.