El cautivo

Synopsis of El cautivo

«El cautivo» is the historical novel by Jesús Sánchez Adalid, published by B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).

Luis María Monroy de Villalobos, a young nobleman of the sixteenth century, grows up among tales of chivalry. He serves as a page at Belvís Castle, then Charles V, and in the tercio of Don Álvaro de Sande, where he takes part in the disastrous expedition of Los Gelves. Music, courtly love, and chivalric ideals coexist with war, captivity, and death.

First installment of the saga «El caballero de Alcántara». Edition published on 9 February 2011.

For readers of historical fiction set in the sixteenth century and followers of Jesús Sánchez Adalid's work.