The murders of the great-great-grandson of Juana La Loca, a psychopath under the Habsburg kings

The Emperor of the Holy Germanic Empire, Rudolf II, was an amazing character, for better or for worse. A flamboyant monarch, a patron ahead of his time, a lover of art, mathematics and various curiosities… The nephew of Philip II of Spain set out to imitate his uncle’s greatness in Vienna and Prague in this way, whom he met during his training in Madrid, the imitation turned out to be a frog. When the King of Spain collected relics and works of art; The emperor collected rare books and a dwarf guard… While the Spaniard was a little interested in alchemy, the Austrian summoned to Prague the greatest and rarest experts in this pseudoscience. And… Show more