Cascaborra Ediciones El Gran Capitan comic

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba is one of the most transcendental generals in the history of the art of war.

He lived in the heart of the Renaissance and knew how to grasp like no other the changes that gunpowder imposed on military tactics and strategies.

The Spanish tercios under his command, armed with muskets and arquebuses, mercilessly broke the charges of heavy cavalry that, until that moment, had reigned on European battlefields.

At the head of a small army, he defeated the French in Italy and conquered for his lord the kingdom of Naples and for himself immortal honor and the title of Great Captain.

Gonzalo was a lover of luxury and ostentation in dress, but he also knew how to endure the hardships and miseries of the battlefield.

He shared hunger, cold and disease with his men, never hiding behind his position as general to avoid discomfort and suffering.

He knew how to earn the respect and loyalty of his soldiers, capable of giving up their pay just for the honor of serving under his command.

Many European leaders courted him with substantial offers to command their armies, but Gonzalo was a man of his word.

He triumphed in life and, like many before and after him, had to pay the price of power.