Resumo de The Desired One: The Fascinating History Of Dom Sebastião

One is about the third historical romance of the bahian writer. Here it leans over itself on the figure of D. Sebastião of Portugal, king to the three years, died to the 24 in the battle of Alcácer Quibir and that, transformed into myth, centuries later still he lives in imaginary the popular one. The myth crossed the ocean, arriving to be cited by Advising Antonio in the tragic episode of Canudos (to see the Sertões, Wedge, Euclides of).

But the book of Roriz beyond trying to find the reply for the fast decay of the lusitana nation, that for more than a century was the powerful country richest and of the planet, present-in still the all you intrigue them diplomatical palacianas and that had surrounded the historical birth of the son of princess D. Juana of Austria, son of the king Carlos V of Spain, emperor of the Sacro Império Roman-Germanic and the young fragile e prince D. João Manuel. It still in says them of the life in the Europe of century XVI, of the marriages contracted between the real families and that they aimed at only the expansion and the economic domain of the monarchies in detriment of the will of the peoples of the diverse kingdoms, the persecution to the Jews and the frequent incestuous relations in the diverse cuts. Tell-in also the episodes of the life and the practical doctor of the celebrity Portuguese master-physicist, Amato Lusitano, who, in the fiction created for Roriz, diagnosiss a rare pathology genetic with which she would have been born so yearned for monarch. That one that would move away from a time for all the ghost to see incorporated Portugal to the Spain, since that king D. João III, the Merciful one, did not have plus any heir, not to be its Spanish grandson been born of the marriage between the princess Maria Manuela and the other son of Carlos V, the future king of Spain, Philip II. E thus, between spiced, practical scenes sexual little orthodox of the européias cuts and known facts less, as the return of D. Juana for Spain, when D. Sebastião counted to only three months and the auto exile of powerful emperor Carlos V in the monastery of Yuste in the mountain range of Gredos, the author goes tracing a curious and interesting story of a History that is not learned in official books.

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