George Holmes, a prestigious historian of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance whose studies are internationally recognized, was a researcher at St. John’s College, Cambridge, Chichele Professor, and Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His main works are The estates of the higher nobility in fourteenth-century England (1957), The later Middle Ages, 1272-1485 (1962), The Florentine enlightenment 1400-1450 (1969), Europe: hierarchy and revolt, 1320-1450 (1975), The good parliament (1975), Dante (1980), The Oxford illustrated history of medieval Europe (1988), The first age of the western city, 1300-1500 (1990), The Oxford history of medieval Europe (1992 ), Renaissance (1996), The Oxford illustrated history of Italy (1997). In Spanish, in addition to this title, you can read Florence, Rome and the origins of the Renaissance (Akal, 1994).