Thursday 27th November - 6.30PM
In this lecture, first given at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, the scholarly Briton Hugh Thomas - author of many books on Spanish culture including Rivers of Gold - The Rise of the Spanish Empire: from Columbus to Magellan, The Conquest of Mexico, and I Moctezuma, emperor of the Aztecs - sets off in search of signs of Amadis of Gaul and of other novels of chivalry in the mentality of the 'conquistadores'.
FREE
In Spanish & English
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