Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff

Boabdil

Also known as: Boabdil

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Overview

Muhammad XII (c. 1459 – c. 1533), the last Nasrid sultan of Granada, called Boabdil by the Spaniards («el rey chico»), who surrendered the city to Ferdinand and Isabella on 2 January 1492; legend has him weep as he left it (reader footnote 093.0314.3; Mon Journal t.14 index: «Boabdil (dernier roi arabe de Grenade) : 243»). Not a person of Marie's world.

Relevance to Marie

On 29 October 1881, on her Spanish trip, she writes of the Alhambra: «Je suis empoignée par feu Boabdil et ses maures que je rêve se promenant dans ce palais unique au monde, mais je garde rancune aux murailles sèches de Tolède qui m'a laissé une impression de village de Crimée. Tandis que Grenade et l'Alhambra !!» (093.0314).

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