This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United Sta
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From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh
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