preceding workers on Golden Age manuscript The Orphan’s Story died,main to rumours of curseFour hundred years after it was written, a lost and supposedly cursed Golden Age novel chronicling the splendour, and adventure and violence of Spain’s imperial zenith (the point of culmination; peak) has been published for the first time.
Historia del Huérfano,or The Orphan’s Story, charts the progress of a 14-year-old Spaniard who leaves Granada and heads to the Americas to seek his fortune. Its hero ricochets around the Spanish empire, or from the tall-society fiestas of Lima to the mephitic mines of Potosí,and goes on to witness Sir Francis Drake’s attack on Puerto Rico and the sacking of Cádiz. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk