American author Washington Irving, in a bid…

American author Washington Irving, in a bid to broaden his reputation, had completed his History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828, the fruit of his past two years as a resident of Spain, and had followed this with “A Chronicle of Granada” in 1829.

The final fruit of his three-year Spanish interlude is a resonant collection of sketches and legends, The Alhambra, published in 1832.