Juana I, la reina cuerda

Described in her youth as "very sane", why did things go wrong in Juana's existence? Was her husband so "beautiful"? Was Juana suffering from a latent disease that accelerated with the distance between her and Castilla? Did her pregnancies accentuate a hitherto silent ailment?. Was her jealousy the cause of her pathology? Why was Isabel the Catholic at the end of the Middle Ages allowed to reign and her heiress not, in the middle of the Renaissance, with humanism as a doctrine? Did Juana use the alienation that was attributed to her as a neural mask? What values did she cling to to maintain her bravery in the face of her captors? For nearly 50 years Juana, Spain's most famous and yet least powerful queen, was confined to the Tordesillas palace. When she arrived she was 29 years old and died in that cloister at the age of 75. Except for her childish laughter, throughout her life she was treated like a puppet. She, who was the wisest princess of her time... Without looking for it, Juana was on the board a pawn moved at will by her father, Fernando, by her husband, Felipe, and by her son. of her, Carlos. They say that behind the history of chess, brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Muslims, is the enigmatic figure of her mother, the Lady... Isabel designated Juana as heir in her will, although in practice she was ignored at his command. With patience and scientific rigor, María Lara, a doctor in Modern History, reconstructs the daily life of Juana de Trastámara, from the investigation into her birthplace to her decline one Good Friday after being branded a heretic. Investigating in the archives, the writer delves into the emotional universe of Juana, the empress whose title was never recognized, the mystic who lived with Felipe's corpse as the key to her freedom. This is the story of Juana, the sane queen.