Hernando Colón, el bibliófilo que se enfrentó al emperador

Christopher Columbus had two children: Diego, born from his marriage to the Portuguese Felipa Moniz, and Hernando, the bastard fruit of his relationship with the Cordovan Beatriz de Arana in the years when, already settled in Castile, the Genoese tried to win patronage of the Catholic Monarchs for their discovery project. To the first-born he bequeathed his titles and the contractual rights agreed in the Capitulations of Santa Fe; at least intelligence, unwavering determination and the mandate to defend the privileges and name of the Colóns. Hernando, known as one of the most erudite courtiers of the European courts, will face not only the power, first of King Ferdinand the Catholic and then of the Emperor Charles I, with whom he was paradoxically united in friendship, but also with officials who created a clientelist network around the economic benefits provided by the Indies. An exciting novel where the Catholic Monarchs, Beatriz de Bobadilla, Cisneros, Emperor Carlos, Francisco de los Cobos, the official who will become the right hand of the emperor, the humanists of the court led by Pedro Mártir de Anglería and Fray Diego de Deza, Bartolomé de las Casas, Américo Vespucio, Alonso de Ojeda, Miguel Ángel Buonarroti, Pope Julius II, Rafael Sanzio, Baldassarre Castiglione, Erasmo de Rotterdam, Hernán Pérez de Oliva, rector of the University of Salamanca, and one of the first Editors of the story, the primidora Brígida de Maldonado, make up the story of the bibliophile who faced the emperor.