Àlex Claramunt Soto publishes ‘It is necessary punishment’ (Desperta Ferro Ediciones) to illuminate the episode beyond nationalist or religious keys
Portrait of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, III Duke of Alba (1568), oil on board by Willem Key, Liria Palace.Casa de Alba Foundation
The first words of III Duke of Alba upon their arrival in the Netherlands in 1567 after a long and dusty journey they have gone down in the history of the macabre. “You see here a great heretic”, he enunciated when greeting the charismatic Count of Egmont,…
