martes, 12 de mayo de 2015

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CHARLES V

The way Charles V Habsburg saw the lands of his days.




There is a famous quote attributed to him: “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
Apart from letting us know that in the early 1500s horses were fluent in German, those words are a testament to His Majesty’s cosmopolitan spirit.

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