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Michael de Ferdinandy
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Emeritus Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Author of El emperador Carlos V: semblanza de un hombre and others.

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Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
Charles V was the Holy Roman emperor (1519–56), king of Spain (as Charles I; 1516–56), and archduke of Austria (as Charles I; 1519–21), who inherited a Spanish and Habsburg empire extending across Europe from Spain and the Netherlands to Austria and the Kingdom of Naples and reaching overseas to…
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