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The 1570s: 1570–1579
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A Catholic-Habsburg fleet stopped the Ottomans at Lepanto in 1571, the last great galley battle in history. In Paris, the wedding of Henri of Navarre turned into the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots in 1572, and Drake slipped out of Plymouth in 1577 to raid Spanish America.
Lepanto in 1571 and the Paris massacre of 1572 showed the decade's two faces of holy war. The film Queen Margot opens at that 1572 wedding, and Anita Amirrezvani's Equal of the Sun moves the same sectarian struggle to the Safavid court of Iran in 1576. Open the 1570s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
A smaller shelf: only 8 stories in the catalogue are tagged to the 1570s so far — every one of them worth the visit.
8 famous stories set in the 1570s
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Browse 6 books and 2 movies set in the 1570s (1570–1579).
Queen Margot
Paris Kingdom of France August 18 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois sister of the feeble King Charles IX marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
The Bridge on the Drina
A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature…
Equal of the Sun
Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah’s daughter and protégée, knows more about the inner…
Sacred Hearts
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when…
The Twelve Children of Paris
Paris, August 23rd, 1572.What do you do when your wife disappears?In the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European history?And you know she is about to give birth to your only child?Three wars of religion have turned…
The Courtesan
Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court-but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary.Paris, 1575.…
The Nun and the Devil
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian…
House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
In 1572, the Spanish Conquistadors stormed the Inca stronghold of Vilcabamba in Peru, searching for great golden treasure, only to find the city deserted, burned, and already stripped of its wealth. A legend says that…
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