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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.67418#0292
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MILITARY ORDERS
The
Son of
Thunder
to the conquest of the Americas the Breth-
ren of S. James carried the ruddy sword
and the cockle shell, and S. James, the Son
of Thunder, was known by aborigines as
the lightning’s child.
Apologia
For the Spanish policy of the Catholic
Kings there is more to be said than space
affords here, even though if necessary it
might still be granted that Isabel’s reli-
gious passion was tinged with the madness
that possessed her mother and that she
transmitted to her daughter; nay more,
that Ferdinand was the same bogy at home
as abroad, the sinister figure that looms
in the background of II Principe. Macchia-
velli wrote a treatise on how to make a
strong state at the expense of your soul.
Ferdinand illustrated it. Spain was strong.
In the two centuries since Ferdinand III
took Seville the great houses had come up
and they were stronger than the throne.
For each reign history offered only three
HISPANIC NOTES
MILITARY ORDERS
The
Son of
Thunder
to the conquest of the Americas the Breth-
ren of S. James carried the ruddy sword
and the cockle shell, and S. James, the Son
of Thunder, was known by aborigines as
the lightning’s child.
Apologia
For the Spanish policy of the Catholic
Kings there is more to be said than space
affords here, even though if necessary it
might still be granted that Isabel’s reli-
gious passion was tinged with the madness
that possessed her mother and that she
transmitted to her daughter; nay more,
that Ferdinand was the same bogy at home
as abroad, the sinister figure that looms
in the background of II Principe. Macchia-
velli wrote a treatise on how to make a
strong state at the expense of your soul.
Ferdinand illustrated it. Spain was strong.
In the two centuries since Ferdinand III
took Seville the great houses had come up
and they were stronger than the throne.
For each reign history offered only three
HISPANIC NOTES