SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF AN EPHEMERAL NOBILITY: NICOLAO GRIMALDO, THE GREAT BANKER OF PHILIP II

The reader of this book has in his hands a work that will allow him to know the fascinating history of a character like Nicolao Grimaldo and to understand in a new way the socioeconomic mechanisms of the system of the Catholic monarchy of Philip II. It comes from the pen of a renowned historian such as Carmen Sanz Ayán, whose skill, method and tenacity have allowed her to effectively and successfully undertake the difficult task of renewing the historiographical panorama on the Catholic monarchy in order to highlight its originality, its mobility and the relevance of its international projection. It is a work of long duration carried out by searching, accumulating and collating different types of documentation in many archives and libraries. His many books, articles and contributions have opened up significant paths that have made it possible to advance, particularly in the economic-financial field - without forgetting the sociocultural and artistic fields - in the understanding of the monarchic system, in the definition of the subjects that made it up and also in the analysis of what it meant as a mechanism and reference model for the economic and financial networks that were being created inside and outside the Iberian Peninsula.