El “Rey Católico” de las primeras guerras de Italia. Imagen de Fernando II de Aragón y V de Castilla entre la expectación profética y la tensión internacional (1493-1499)

Abstract

In the last decade of the fifteenth century the image of Ferdinand the Catholic acquired a European dimension, defined by his relations with the Papacy, his projects of expansion in the Mediterranean, and the dispute with France over the Kingdom of Naples. The present study reconstructs the trajectory of this political icon, which is not always upward, making use of the opinions of chroniclers, the rhetorical production and the propaganda literature that was generated during these years which were marked by international tension and prophetic expectancy: a period of convulsion, and at the same time decisive in the symbolic establishment of the monarchy of the Catholic Kings.