Here are posts labelled "Spain" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano
- Known as: Juan Valera
- Birth: October 18, 1824, Cabra, Spain
- Death: April 18, 1905, Madrid, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish author known for Pepita Jimenez
- Included in lists (What's This?): HCF
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| Garces converting Indians |
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- Name: Francisco Garces
- Birth: April 12, 1738, Morata de Jalón, Spain
- Death: July 18, 1781, Fort Yuma, California, USA
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Pioneering Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona and California, USA. Left a Diary after being killed in an Indian uprising near present-day Yuma, Arizona.
- Included in lists (What's This?): SW
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| with his pet ocelot |
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- Name: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol
- Known as: Salvador Dali
- Birth: May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain
- Death: January 23, 1989, Figueres, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish painter; Persistence of Memory, The Crucifixion
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca
- Known as: Federico Garcia Lorca
- Birth: June 5, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Spain
- Death: August 19, 1936, Alfacar, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish poet and playwright; Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads); the Rural Trilogy (Blood Wedding; Yerma; The House of Bernarda Alba)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Known as: Francisco Goya
- Birth: March 30, 1746, Fuendetodos, Spain
- Death: April 16, 1828, Bordeaux, France
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish painter; The Second of May; The Third of May; La Maja Desnuda; Saturn Devouring His Son; Charles IV of Spain and His Family; Witches' Sabbath; Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga
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- Name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño
- Known as: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Birth: January 17, 1600, Madrid, Spain
- Death: May 25, 1681, Madrid, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish playwright; La Vida Es Sueño (Life Is a Dream); La Dama Duende (The Phantom Lady)
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom
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| by Zurbarán |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Juan de Yepes y Álvarez
- Known as: San Juan de la Cruz, Saint John of the Cross
- Birth: June 24, 1542, Fontiveros, Spain
- Death: December 14, 1591, Úbeda, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish saint and mystic; Subida del Monte Carmelo (Ascent of Mount Carmel); La Noche Oscura del Alma (The Dark Night of the Soul); Cántico Espiritual (The Spiritual Canticle)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Fray Luis de León
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1527, Belmonte, Cuenca, Spain
- Death: August 23, 1591, Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish poet, monk, and theologian; La Perfecta Casada (The Perfect Wife); De los Nombres de Cristo (The Names of Christ); Bible commentaries and poems
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Doménikos Theotokópoulos
- Known as: El Greco
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1541, Heraklion, Greece
- Death: April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain
- Language: Greek, Italian, Spanish
- Who he was: Greek/Spanish painter; El Expolio; The Assumption of the Virgin; The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; View of Toledo; Opening of the Fifth Seal
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Also known as: Cabeza de Vaca
- Birth: variously 1488, 1490, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
- Death: variously 1557, 1558, 1559, or 1560, Seville, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish explorer; La relación of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (The Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Pablo Picasso
- Birth: October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain
- Death: April 8, 1973, Mougins, France
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish painter, multi-faceted artist, poet, and playwright; Guernica; Dove; Head of a Woman; Head of a Bull, Metamorphosis
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Ignacio de Loyola
- Known as: Ignatius of Loyola
- Birth: October 23, 1491, Azpeitia, Spain
- Death: July 31, 1556, Rome, Italy
- Language: Spanish; Latin
- Who he was: Spanish theologian and religious founder; Autobiography; Spiritual Exercises
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- Name: El Cantar de mio Cid
- Known as: The Poem of the Cid
- Dates: composed sometime between 1140 and 1207
- Place: Spain
- Language: Old Spanish
- What it is: Spanish epic poem about a hero named "El Cid" (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) and his role in evicting the Moors from Spain
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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| by Fra Angelico |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Dominic
- Also known as: Santo Domingo (Saint Dominic); Dominic of Osma; Dominic of Caleruega; Dominic de Guzmán
- Birth: August 8, 1170, Caleruega, Kingdom of Castile
- Death: August 6, 1221, Bologna, Italy
- Language: Latin, Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish saint and religious founder; traditional founder of the practice of the Rosary. "The Nine Ways of Prayer of St. Dominic" are by another author; Dominic may have written the Constitutions of the Dominicans, and three letters.
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Averroes, detail of Raphael's
fresco The School of Athens |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Ibn Rushd
- Known as: Averroes
- Birth: April 14, 1126, Córdoba, Spain
- Death: December 10, 1198, Marrakesh, Morocco
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Andalusian polymath; Tahafut al-tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence); Kitab fasl al-maqal (The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy)
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- Name: Moshe ben Maimon
- Known as: Maimonides
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1135, Córdoba, Spain
- Death: December 13, 1204, Fustat, Egypt
- Language: Judeo-Arabic
- Who he was: medieval Jewish philosopher; The Guide for the Perplexed; "Oath of Maimonides"
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| by Peter Paul Rubens |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada
- Known as: Teresa of Avila
- Birth: March 28, 1515, Gotarrendura, Spain
- Death: October 4, 1582, Alba de Tormes, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who she was: Spanish saint and mystic who wrote her Autobiography; El Camino de Perfeccion (The Way of Perfection); El Castillo Interior (The Interior Castle)
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- Name: Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm
- Known as: Ibn Hazm
- Birth: November 7, 994, Córdoba, Caliphate of Córdoba (Spain)
- Death: August 15, 1064, Montíjar, near Huelva, Taifa of Seville (Spain)
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Andalusian Muslim poet and philosopher who wrote Tawq al-Hamama (The Ring of the Dove)
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- Name: Isidore of Seville
- Birth: Unknown Date, 560, Cartagena, Spain
- Death: April 4, 636, Seville, Spain
- Languages: Vulgar Latin (?), Latin, Greek, Hebrew
- Who he was: Hispano-Roman Archbishop and the "last of the Church Fathers"; Etymologiae (The Etymologies); De fide catholica contra Iudaeos (On the Catholic faith against the Jews); Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum (History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi)
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| by Jáuregui |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Known as: Miguel de Cervantes
- Birth: September 29, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
- Death: April 23, 1616, Madrid, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Who he was: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright; The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); HC; LRP; Bloom; GC
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