It is the dawning of the Renaissance, and the Moors have ruled Granada of Spain for eight hundred years, while in Italy the Kingdom of Naples is attacked by France, threatening the stability of Europe. From this political maelstrom an unlikely hero emerges, El Gran Capitan, favorite knight of popular young Queen Isabel of Spain and her consort King Fernando. Splendid, handsome, and generous, El Gran Capitan moves with ease between common folk and royalty, Sultans and Popes, the Medici and the Turks. He befriends his enemy, Sultan Boabdil of Granada, before negotiating with him the honorable...