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...edition (Historia general de España) appearing in 1601. Further editions, updated by various authors, were published as late as 1841; one of these was translated into English as The General History of Spain (1699). It is less a great history than a work of art, combining history, anecdote, and legend in a fluid and readable prose that makes it a work of sustained...
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