Instead, Gachard and other historians have had to work from various copies, each one containing alternative readings. These alone suffice to place Charles V in the first rank of the statesmen of his day.” Strangely enough, virtually no one has seen the originals of either document, acquired for the Hispanic Society of America in 1906 by its founder, Archer M. In 1872, the eminent Belgian historian Louis-Prosper Gachard praised the secret Instructions written in Palamos on 4 and by Emperor Charles V for his son, the future Philip II, as “monuments of wisdom and foresight, born of a mature experience in the art of government, and a profound knowledge of men and affairs.
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