"Para el rey nuestro señor..." Fernando el Católico, el conde de Tendilla y la cultura de su tiempo
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Universidad de Granada
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ISSN: 1699-7778
Year of publication: 2017
Volume: 8
Issue: 34
Pages: 167-201
Type: Article
More publications in: Tiempos modernos: Revista Electrónica de Historia Moderna
Abstract
Íñigo Lopez of Mendoza, the second count of Tendilla, the first general captain of the Kingdom of Granada and the first alcaide of the Alhambra, was one of the most faithful allies of the king Ferdinand the Catholic. His service into the crown was translated in an active participation in the War of Granada, in his extraordinary mission as ambassador of the Catholic Monarchs in the Holy See and as agent and promoter of artworks related to the royal patronage. In this article, this bond is studied across the role that represents his correspondence that, besides his value as testimony of an age, is a very completed example of the epistolary literature of the Renaissance.