by Fernando Vizcaíno Casas · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432045004
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«Las mujeres del Rey Católico» is the historical novel by Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, published by Planeta in paperback (196 pages, in Spanish).
The book reviews the last twelve years of Ferdinand the Catholic through the women around him: his four lovers, his daughter Juana la Loca and his second wife, Germana de Foix. Between history and fiction, it recounts his love affairs, Juana's ravings, the death of Columbus, the conquest of Oran and the incorporation of Navarre into Castile.
Originally published in 1988, it belongs to Planeta's Memoria de la Historia collection and includes an index of names and bibliographical notes (pp. 187-191).
For readers interested in the history of Spain, the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic and the historical novel with a documentary basis.
Fernando Vizcaíno Casas (1926–2003) was a Spanish labour lawyer, journalist and writer. His writings were generally supportive of Francoist Spain. During the 1970s and 1980s he collaborated with the director Rafael Gil on a number of films that supported this point of view. He wrote ...Y al tercer año, resucitó, Niñas… ¡al salón!, De "camisa vieja" a chaqueta nueva, 1975/El año en que Franco murió en la cama, and Viva Franco, con perdón, between others.
