This historical novel, or fictionalized history, has enjoyed notable success for some time. Television does not stop adapting this type of literary creations. Right now TV3 is broadcasting ‘Els hereus de la terra’ – it has also been on Netflix, in Spanish, for a year – a televised version of the novel by Ildefonso Falcones about the life and tribulations of Barcelona in 1387.
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It is not a historical series, it is a novel with more or less invented protagonists and plots, but the production company Diagonal TV knows how to do these jobs well and also portrays to us, in its own way, the peculiar course of the monarchs of the Crown of Aragon, in turn Counts of Barcelona, d’Urgell, Roussillon and Cerdanya. From time to time we are presented with shocking images. When we are introduced to Martin I of Aragonfor example, also called The humanthey show us him already married in second marriage with Margaret of Pradesand they dedicate their television attention to staging the hard work of this King to be able to father an heir, given that his children with his previous wife, Maria de Luna, they had all died. And the image is priceless. In the royal bed of the palace, the king Martin He is hoisted with ropes and pulleys by strong bracers, in order to place him right on top of the poor Daisy flower, who lies sprawled in bed, waiting for some of her royal husband’s sperm to find the right path. The entire court watches, hopeful, such an acrobatic maneuver. It is a very spectacular blow. Unfortunately the system did not work. And then the Caspe Commitment happened, which they don’t tell us about and it is fundamental. It means the embedding of the Castilian dynasty of the Trastámara in the Crown of Aragon. Ah! Catalonia and Spain today would be very different if the Caspe Compromise had not existed. And all because Martin I He was unable to impregnate the daughter of the Counts of Prades.
In the program ‘Illustrious Ignorants’ (M+) they talked the other day about broken labors of love, and the comedian Pepe Colubi warned: «Everything is condensed in Rocío Jurado’s song ‘Our love broke from using it so much’ whose first and true title was ‘Penis fracture’». Ah! At best what Martin I What he needed was a dose of extract from the ‘cantharide’ insect, the Viagra of that time, known today in all the ‘sex shops’ as ‘Spanish fly’.