The Book of Illustrious Men of Castile by Fernando del Pulgar.Translated by Erik Ekman and Samantha Mori.
The Book of Illustrious Men of Castile is a collection of twenty-four biographies of Castilian nobles and prelates from the fifteenth century published by the royal chronicler, Fernando del Pulgar, in 1486 and dedicated to Queen Isabel I of Castile. It is an important example of humanist historical writing that looked to classical literary...