"You can't write the history of Italy between 1200 and 1500 without looking at the Catalans and their ambitions," explains British historian David Abulafia (Twickenham, 1949). Emeritus professor of Mediterranean history at Cambridge University, he is the author of essays translated into Spanish as The discovery of humanity, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean andA sea without limits. A human history of the oceans. Now, for the first time, it can be read in Catalan, with The struggle for dominance of the Mediterranean. The great Catalan expansion from 1200 to 1500 (Sails and Winds). In the book, translated by Oriol Ràfols, the historian addresses the conflicts that occurred in the Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500 for political and naval supremacy and for control of its center, Sicily, and southern Italy.