Charles V vs. Suleiman the Magnificent

During the government of Charles V and Phillip II, they destroyed methodically the manufacturing industry in Spain, and most of the revenues from the Americas were "magically" shipped outside Spain.

 

Curiously enough, while the ruling classes of Spain were enjoying the river of money arriving, the common people were suffering hunger, and many were escaping to the Americas.

 

Weird,

 

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By the way, if they don't know Don Giovanni (Don Juan Tenorio) it is quite sad... ...they have missed the fun part of art history .

 

Don Juan is globally nobody. Nobodys know him outside of Spanish-speaking world. Even you refer to Don Giovanni opera by Mozart to prove his fame. Mozart also wrote operas about the Ottoman harem. So the harem guard in that opera must be a genious according to you...

 

Besides, Don Quixote was voted not long ago as the best literary book ever written. Between the voters there were many muslim writers that I bet know more about literature that you, fellow.

 

Don Quixote is important for western literature because it is considered the first true novel. As you know novel is a strictily western art form. Rest of the world started writing novels only after the colonial era.

 

Claiming that Don Quixote is 'voted the best literary book ever written' is just stinking garbage. Maybe some literary types voted it the best novel ever written, but no sane person would claim what you wrote. If some lunatics really did that, it just shows nothing but the extent of the narcissistic fantasies the western art circles are masturbating to.

 

And I bet there is not match for Mozart in the world... he was the fellow that addopted Don Juan for his Opera Don Giovanni, anyways.

 

What the f**k is Mozart doing in XVI th century in Charles V's time? What are you smoking?

 

And the West also had recognized the value of the Arabian Nights, the Tao te King and the Kamasutra, among others "oriental" classics, so I believe your claim of Eurocentrism is not fair.

 

For every book the 'Orientalists' studied there are thousand others that they didn't . Some of those books have become popular in the West due to a variety of reasons. They are by no means the only works of literary value that originate from Asia.

 

Tao te Ching is not a literary work, it is a religious text. Kama Sutra is a manual about sexual relations. So your boasts about knowing Asian literature are visibly empty as your general rhetoric.

 

False, people is recognized because its importance to the world. And people like Kahyyam and Alhazen made such important contributions that nobody could forget them, no matter they were Muslims.

 

These people you mention were famous only because they had some influence in the West for some reason or another. Of course they were talented, but there are thousands like them which the Westerners don't know about.

 

Yet you go claiming that you don't know about the rest because they are not talented. I find this western arrogance you are displaying, in one word, disgusting.

 

How about naming me a few Chinese poets? Indian poets? You can't name even one... Even though these countries have literary traditions thousands of years old.

 

So, according to you thousand of years nothing worthwile was written because you never heard of them. These countries are populated by retards, while everyone who wrote one famous book in some European country is a genious, a worthy contributor to 'universal human civilisation'...

 

 

 

 

It probably shows that XVIth century Spanish had many talents and practised many kinds of art.