La tarde que ardió Zaragoza

April 1766. A canon appears dead in the monastery of Cogullada and everything indicates that he has been assassinated. On his clothes there is a poster announcing a massive revolt in Zaragoza for the next few days if the mayor of the city does not lower the price of bread. This is the intriguing start of The afternoon that burned Zaragoza, by the historian Domingo Buesa Conde. The author recreates in this novel the so-called Mutiny of the Bucklers, which enveloped the Aragonese capital in a spiral of violence, with the burning of buildings and a disproportionate repression against the population. In this tense environment, a simple friar will become a prominent protagonist, alongside such illustrious figures as Ramón de Pignatelli, the Count of Aranda himself or a young, revolutionary and temperamental painter named Francisco de Goya.