Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied
statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival,
the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting
historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great
struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain:
the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's
failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating
book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that
contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as
Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the
inevitability of that outcome. His absorbing comparative portrait
of the two men, as personalities and as statesmen, through their
policies and their mutual struggle, offers unique insights into
seventeenth-century Europe and the nature of power and
statesmanship.
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