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Calderon the Courtier, a Tale By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Calderon the Courtier, a Tale

By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  • Release Date: 1873-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
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The Tragic comedy of Court Intrigue, which had ever found its principal theater in Spain since the accession of the House of Austria to the throne, was represented with singular complication of incident and brilliancy of performance during the reign of Philip the Third. That monarch, weak, indolent, and superstitious, left the reins of government in the hands of the Duke of Lerma. The Duke of Lerma, in his turn, mild, easy, ostentatious, and shamefully corrupt, resigned the authority he had thus received to Roderigo Calderon, an able and resolute upstart, whom nature and fortune seemed equally to favor and endow.