Excerpt from The Story of Don John of AustriaAs on the walls of some tapestried chamber the author displays the Story of Don John of Austria from his engaging childhood to his saintly death. The light as it shines on this Prince Charming, also falls on thosegreat ones of his time who were his friends or foes, and on the multitude of their servants and followers, lingering most lovingly on beautiful Doha Magdalena de Ulloa, as it glints on the golden texture of her unselfish life. In the woof of the background the author has woven many homely touches, which seem to make the figures live again, and, shaking off the dust of more than three centuries, to leave the arras as in some Pavilion d'armide.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Biographical novel of the of Don John of Austria, leader of the European forces in the Battle of Lepanto. This biographical novel covers the story of his whole life.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Coloma (1851-1914) was a Spanish author whose works included novels, short stories and biographies. In 1908 he became a member of the Real Academia. This semi-fictionalised biography of Don John of Austria (1547-78), an illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and half-brother of Philip II of Spain, was published as Jeromin (1902) in the original Spanish and appeared in this English translation in 1912.