This book contains sixteen portraits of historical characters. Kings, knights and beautiful ladies, humanists, generals, reformers lived at different times and in different parts of Europe. All of them are not just bright, extraordinary personalities with amazing destinies. They all made history, and women were guided by the whims of hearts no more than men. Even the most eccentric and charming coquettes in the affairs of the state followed the voice of reason. In deciding Europe's fate, they, though children of their time, were true Europeans, romantics fascinated by the great idea of European unity.