Un mondo nuovo. Dal punto di vista di Andreu

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Spain, after the unification of the Crowns of Aragon and Castile and the discovery of the New World, was on the road to becoming an empire, of which Naples would be an important part for controlling the Mediterranean. Andreu, a loyal servant of the Aragonese, returns to Naples with the mission of monitoring the fascinating and ambitious Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Great Captain, the first viceroy who maintained an ambiguous relationship with his master, King Ferdinand. Andreu's son Didac embarks on his American adventure, while his father, the central protagonist of this novel, navigates a period of profound historical transformation that sees Naples within the Spanish imperial system, in which Southern Italy will find what Giuseppe Galasso called the "Neapolitan way to the modern state." With Andreu, the reader also witnesses the life stages of a refined and cultured man navigating the ever-unpredictable waters of power, his victories, his loves, and the disappointments of adulthood. The writing of a memoir and his concern for his son's fate will guide us toward the fulfillment of his destiny.