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Philip II. The man and politician – the alter ego of his father the emperor

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Philip II, who fought for power over the entire Western world, was the main supporter and defender of Rome in the religious conflicts in Europe and of Europe itself in its struggle against the Muslim invasion, the most consistent and honest supporter of Catholicism. He was inevitably the subject of countless and varied assessments, often laudatory or derogatory, but in any case, not without bias. This and much more makes King Philip II, a man of rare intolerance and unconditional honor, statesmanlike intelligence and spiritual inaccessibility, one of the most important historical figures, an outstanding ruler, perhaps the most effective in the history of Spain and all of contemporary Western Europe. Philip II is also remembered as a unique individual, no stranger to scholarship and a connoisseur of the arts, who so visibly demonstrated his talent, for example, in the planning and construction of the Escorial. It was during his reign that Spanish literature entered its Golden Age. He did as much as possible to strengthen, but also to weaken the Spanish Empire, and after his departure its irreversible decline began.
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