by Antonio Villanueva Edo · Roca Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499187129
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«El gran canciller» is the historical novel by Antonio Villanueva Edo, published by Roca Editorial in hardback (464 pages, in Spanish).
The work recreates the life of Pedro López de Ayala, from his education in Avignon and Valladolid to his career as a soldier, diplomat, chronicler and first secular chancellor of Castile. It covers the civil wars between Pedro I and Enrique de Trastámara, the War of the Two Pedros, the Hundred Years' War and the reigns of six kings of Castile.
Posthumous work by Antonio Villanueva Edo, who died in Bilbao in November 2013; it was published in January 2014.
For readers of historical fiction interested in late medieval Castile and figures such as Pedro López de Ayala.
