During the Age of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's best known conquistadors. Naturally, as the best known conquistador, Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) is also the most controversial. Like Christopher Columbus before him, Cortes was lionized for his successes for centuries without questioning his tactics or motives, while indigenous views of the man have been overwhelmingly negative for the consequences his conquests had on the Aztecs and other natives in the region. Just about the only thing everyone agrees upon is that Cortes had a profound impact on the...
During the Age of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's best known conquistadors. Naturally, as the best known co...
This is a biography of the famous 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, whose historic exploration of Florida and the American Southeast made him one of the most important figures of his age
This is a biography of the famous 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, whose historic exploration of Florida and the American Southeast mad...
This is a biography of one of Spain's most notorious explorers and conquistadores, Francisco Pizarro. Naturally, as one of the best known conquistadors, Francisco Pizarro (1471/6-1541) is also one of the most controversial. Like Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes before him, Pizarro was celebrated in Europe for subduing the Inca Empire, a culture that fascinated his contemporaries. At the same time, naturally, indigenous views of the man have been overwhelmingly negative. . If Columbus and Cortes were the pioneers of Spain's new global empire, Pizarro consolidated its immense power and...
This is a biography of one of Spain's most notorious explorers and conquistadores, Francisco Pizarro. Naturally, as one of the best known conquistador...
This is a biography of Josephine, the wife of Napoleon while he was the French emperor. She has remained a famous figure in her own right, partly due to the preservation of the correspondence between the two while they were so often separated.
This is a biography of Josephine, the wife of Napoleon while he was the French emperor. She has remained a famous figure in her own right, partly due ...
Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birthplace of immortal Dante, the early home of Michael Angelo, the seat of the Florentine Medici, the scene of Savonarola's triumphs and his tragic end. Fame has come to many sons of Florence, as poets, statesmen, sculptors, painters, travellers; but perhaps none has achieved a distinction so unique, apart, and high as the subject of this volume, after whom the continents of the western hemisphere were named. Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence,...
Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birth...
