by John Huxtable Elliott · Yale University Press, New Haven & London · tapa dura · ISBN 9780300033908
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«The Count-Duke of Olivares» is the historical biography by John Huxtable Elliott, published by Yale University Press in hardback (733 pages, in English).
The work examines the life and political career of don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, favourite of Philip IV, and his efforts to maintain the hegemony of the Hispanic Monarchy during the Thirty Years' War, in a context of decline of Spanish power. Based on primary sources, the narrative combines the portrait of the statesman with an analysis of Spain and Europe in the 1620s and 1630s, without losing sight of the man.
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1986.
Recommended for specialists and students of early modern Spanish and European history, as well as for readers interested in seventeenth-century political biographies.
