The “relaciones de sucesos”, a humble precedent of modern journalism, offer a very rich source yet to be investigated by Hispanic modern history. At the end of the 16th century, the interest in the fight against the Turkish Empire was focused on the “long war” of Hungary (1593–1606), with the emperor Rudolph II and the prince of Transylvania, Zsigmond Báthory facing the Ottoman Empire. We will analyze in detail the mechanisms of news diffusion to the Sevillan press of Rodrigo de Cabrera, where the majority of the relations were released, and the role of the Jesuits, who also acted as creators and transmitters of opinion. This provides a common contextual background to the embassy of the prince of Transylvania to Philip II in 1596 and the premiere of The prodigious Transylvanian prince, attributed to Vélez de Guevara. The play not only offers a model image of the Christian prince, but also its sources were clearly these relations of events

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