Libro Quinto De Varios Assumptos Y Curiosidades
Resumen del Libro
The fifth book of an unknown larger collection containing copies of works from 17th- and 18th-century Spain, including the case of Bernardo Altarejos, imprisoned and executed in 1736 for defrauding the government through forgery, a biography of Rodrigo Calderón, the cases of Rodrigo de Silva Mendoza y Sarmiento, Carlos de Padilla, and Pedro de Silva Domingo Cabral, imprisoned, tortured, and, in the case of the latter two, executed, for their roles in a plot to oust the Hapsburgs from the Spanish throne in 1648, the case of Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, referred to in the text only as the marqués de Carpio, duque de Montoro, who was accused of attempting to burn down the Palacio del Buen Retiro with the royal family inside, Locuras de Europa, a political work by Saavedra Fajardo, a general defense of the virtues of women written by an anonymous author, a letter written by Mathias Venegas recounting a trip to Morocco by the Spanish ambassador in 1579 and the treatment he received from Aḥmad al-Manṣūr, Sultan of Morocco, a short biographical work on Diego García de Paredes, instructions given to the Imperial ambassador, Lope Hurtado de Mendoza, in 1528 before being sent to Portugal, a short biography of Magdalena de la Cruz, recounting her rise to near-saintly stature resulting from supposed visions and communications with God and her subsequent exposure as a fraud and her trial before the Inquisition in 1546, three letters, one addressed to the Marqués de la Ensenada, all recounting an assault on the Castillo del Morro in Santiago de Cuba by English forces in the mid-18th century, as well as previous attacks by the English in other parts of the West Indies and the preparations made in Cuba as a result, a document written by Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, conde de Oñate, justifying his claim to the inheritance of his cousin, Juan de Tarsis, conde de Villamediana, including the latters titles, wealth, and position of Correo Mayor of Spain and Naples, briefs…
