Son of the Alhambra: Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1504-1575Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504 1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post Machiavellian decades. This account of Mendoza's diplomatic career is a living commentary on the mid sixteenth century, the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Reformation, with its upheavals in the European