R.A. Stradling
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R.A. Stradling is impressed by a wide-ranging look at the Madrid of Philip IV
Published March 1 1981
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In the mid-seventeenth century Spain was at the apogee of artistic and cultural achievement under the patronage of her monarch, Philip IV - but, as R.A. Stradling shows here, she was fighting for survival as a great imperial power.
Published March 1 1981
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