Philip II. of SpainHume, Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp)
Philosophy
Philip II. of Spain
Hume, Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp)
Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598; Spain -- History -- Philip II, 1556-1598
Porreño, _Vida y Hechos del Señor Rey Felipe II., el Prudente_ (new
edition), Valladolid, 1863.
Cervero de la Torre, _Testimonio autentico y verdadero de las cosas
notables que pasaron en la dichosa muerte del Rey Felipe II._ (an
account of Philip’s death by his Chaplain), Valencia, 1589, 1
volume.
Fernandez Montaña, _Nueva Luz y verdad historica sobre Felipe II._
(an unrestrained panegyric of Philip from a Catholic priest’s point
of view), Madrid, 1891, 1 volume.
Fernandez Montaña, _Mas Luz y verdad historica sobre Felipe II. el
Prudente_ (supplement to the same), Madrid, 1892, 1 volume.
_Correspondence de Granvelle_ (edited by C. Piot), Brussels, 1884.
_Papiers d’État de Granvelle_ (edited by Weiss), Paris, 1843.
H. Forneron, _Histoire de Philippe II._, Paris, 1880.
Martin Hume, _The Year after the Armada_ (for accounts of Philip’s
marriage, the English attack on Portugal, the social condition of
Spain, etc.), London, 1896, 1 volume.
_Documentos ineditos para la historia de España_, Madrid, in
progress. (A large number of these volumes contain valuable papers
referring to the reign of Philip II.)
Flores, _Reinas Catolicas_, Madrid, 1770 (an account of the Queens
of Spain).
Philippson, _Ein Ministerium unter Philipp II._, Berlin, 1895 (an
account of Granvelle’s ministry in Spain, 1579-1586).
Gachard, _Correspondence de Philip II._, Brussels (correspondence
mainly on Flemish affairs).
Gachard, _Correspondence de Philippe II. avec ses filles_, Paris,
1884, 1 volume (familiar letters from the king to his two children
in 1580-1581).
M. la Fuente, _Historia General de España_, Madrid, 1885.
Strada, _Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre_, Brussels, 1712, 3
volumes.
Muro, Gaspar, _La Princesa de Eboli_, Madrid, 1877, 1 volume (with
valuable preface by Señor Canovas de Castillo).
Perez Antonio, _Relaciones, etc._, Geneva, 1649, 1 volume.
Mignet, _Antonio Perez et Philippe II._, Paris, 1881.
Llorente, _Histoire critique de l’Inquisition_, Paris, 1817.
Fernandez Duro, _Estudios historicos del Reinado de Felipe II._,
Madrid, 1890 (an account of the disaster of Los Gelves, etc.).
Fernandez Duro, _La Armada Invencible_, 2 volumes, Madrid, 1885 (a
Spanish account of the Armada).
Baumstark, _Philippe II. Roi d’Espagne_ (French translation by G.
Kurth), Liège, 1877 (German Catholic view of the king).
Du Prat, _Elizabeth de Valois_, Paris, 1850 (Life of Philip’s third
wife).
Ranke, _Zur Geschichte des Don Carlos_ (in the “Wiener Jahrbüchen
der Literatur,” vol. xlvi., gives all the early relations about Don
Carlos), Vienna, 1829.
Schmidt, _Epochen und Katastrophen: Don Carlos und Philipp II._,
Berlin, 1864 (against Philip).
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