The Spanish Empire, Apex of the Imperial Renaissance

Thomas James Dandelet

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139045704.004

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This book recounts the lives of the emperors, a topic that could not be more appropriate, your Majesty being the son of the Emperor and the descendant of the emperors whose deeds are written about here ... remember the deeds and examples of the good (emperors), not only to imitate them, but to move beyond them.

From Pedro Mexia’s dedication to Philip II of Spain in the Historia Imperial y Cesarea, 1547

Charles V left his son with large shoes to fill on his abdication, but he had also prepared Philip II for his role as well as he could. Unlike the old emperor, who had come into his political inheritance at the tender age of seventeen, his son had the advantage of a much longer period of formation. Philip II was almost thirty when his father began handing over pieces of his empire. In the years leading up to that time, he benefited from a humanist education with a host of personal tutors including Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella, Honorato Juan, and Juan Gines Sepúlveda, who was entrusted with the prince’s instruction in history. A good deal of travel throughout his future realms in Italy and the Low Countries between 1548 and 1554, a brief stint as king of England between 1556 and 1558, and the personal instructions and example of his father in those same years rounded out his political education.

On both the intellectual and cultural levels, he was steeped in the ideas and images of the classical Roman revival that had deepened and spread in the age of Charles V, especially in Spain and Italy. From the beginning of his adult life, his own image was fashioned in the ancient imperial style by the same primary artists who created the images of Charles V in marble, in bronze, and on canvas: Leone and Pompeo Leoni and Titian. He was trained from the beginning to rule an empire.

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Information: The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe , pp. 138 - 198

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