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492 Miguel José Deyá Bauzá

outstanding man of letters who participated in that war and was
wounded in battle , does not appear .
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78
Cañizares’s work reflects the portrayal of Charles V in Tunis that
can be found in the official chronicle of Perrenin, recently published
and analysed by Miguel Ángel Bunes, who summarises it thus:

A ruler who exercises his function as a military commander to perfection;
a fair judge and a man who defends his soldiers and nobles … His treatment
of a Muslim prince (Mulay Hassan) as an ally exemplifies a sovereign who
respects rulers who practice a religion contrary to that of the Emperor
providing that they accept the supremacy and boundaries of Christianity 80 .

It is remarkable that we should find this in the work of Cañizares,
written almost two hundred years after the event. It indicates not only
the continuity in the image and portrayal of Charles V in Spain, but
also the endurance of values personified in the character of the
emperor, which are presented as timeless and endowed with
exemplary moral superiority.

78 Marqués de Sierra Bullones, Garcilaso: cuatro apuntes en la ocasión de rememorar
su participación en la Jornada Imperial de Túnez de 1535, in A. Alvar Ezquerra, J.I. Ruiz
Rodríguez (eds.), Túnez 1535 cit.
79 P. Girón, Crónica del Emperador Carlos V, CSIC, Madrid, 1964, p. 59.
80 M.Á. Bunes Ibarra, La conquista cit., p. 13.

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