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	Tirso de Molina Tirso de Molina , pseud. of Fray Gabriel Téllez , 1584?-1648, outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. His fame rests on El burlador de Sevilla (1630; tr. The Love Rogue, 1924), the earliest known literary version of the Don Juan legend. Among the 300 or 400 plays by... Read more
	Theophile Gautier Théophile Gautier , 1811-72, French poet, novelist, and critic. He was a leading exponent of art for art's sake—the belief that formal, aesthetic beauty is the sole purpose of a work of art. An important manifesto of this theory appeared in the preface of his novel Mademoiselle de... Read more
	Enrique Rodriguez Larreta Enrique Rodríguez Larreta , 1875-1961, Argentine novelist. Larreta lived for many years in Spain and France. His fame rests on La gloria de don Ramiro (1908, tr. 1924), a historical novel of the days of Philip II. It is a classic of the polished modernista genre. Larreta's other novels... Read more
	Giuseppe de Nittis Nittis, Giuseppe de (b Barletta, 25 Feb. 1846; d Saint-Germain-en-Laye, nr. Paris, 21 Aug. 1884). Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and scenes of city life. Early in his career he was associated with the Macchiaioli. He settled in Paris in 1868, became a friend of Degas and Manet, and took part... Read more
	Felix Lope de Vega Carpio Félix Lope de Vega Carpio , 1562-1635, Spanish dramatic poet, founder of the Spanish drama, b. Madrid. Lope, born a peasant, was orphaned at an early age. He wrote the first of his nearly 1,800 plays at 12, and by 25 he was an established playwright and a celebrated wit. He was involved in... Read more
	Prix de Rome Prix de Rome. A scholarship, founded concurrently with the French Academy in Rome (1666), that enabled prizewinning students at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris to spend a period (usually 3–5 years) in Rome at the state's expense, engaged in study and creative... Read more
	Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla , 1876-1946, Spanish composer; pupil of Felipe Pedrell. In Paris from 1907 to 1914, he met Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, and was to some extent influenced by their impressionism. His music, however, remained distinctively Spanish, rooted both in Andalusian folk music and the classical... Read more
	Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno , 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b. Bilbao. The chief Spanish philosopher of his time, he was professor of Greek at the Univ. of Salamanca and later rector there. His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused... Read more
	Joseph Pitton De Tournefort TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE(b, Aix-en-Provence, France, 3 June 1656; d. Paris. France, 28 November 1708)botany, medicine.Tournefort, who had one brother and seven sisters, came from a family of the minor nobility. His father, Pierre Pitton, a lawyer and royal secretary, was seigneur of Tournefort;... Read more