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Arturo Ripstein
RIPSTEIN, Arturo Nationality:Mexican. Born:Mexico City, 1943. Family:Son of Alfredo Ripstein, one of Mexico's most accomplished producers, credited with more than 180 films. Career:Began directorial career at the age of twenty-one, with the debut of... Read more |
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hidalgo
hidalgo [contraction of Span. hijo de algo =son of something], term designating the lowest degree of Spanish nobility, a rank above the ordinary gentry but below the great lords. The status was granted either directly from the crown ( hidalgo de carta ) or was inherited through birth ( hidalgo de... Read more |
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Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , 1833-91, Spanish writer, politician, and diplomat. He wrote several novels, including El sombrero de tres picos (1874, tr. The Three-cornered Hat, 1891), on which Manuel de Falla based his popular ballet, and El capitán Veneno (1881, tr. Captain Venom,... Read more |
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Pedro de Ona
Pedro de Oña , 1570?-1643, Chilean poet. Having been born in Latin America, he is considered Chile's first national poet. His poetry is both epic and religious. Inspired by La aravcana, by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga , he wrote the epic Arauco domado (1596; tr. Arauco... Read more |
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Maurice baron de Hirsch
Maurice Hirsch, baron de , 1831-96, German Jewish financier and philanthropist. The benefactor of numerous organizations and causes, his most ambitious project was the Jewish Colonization Association (1891), an organization designed to facilitate the emigration of Jews from Russia to colonies in... Read more |
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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 |
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Luis Velez de Guevara
Luis Vélez de Guevara , 1579?-1644, Spanish playwright and novelist. He was a follower of Lope de Vega and wrote many popular plays noted for their poetic quality. Among these the most important are La luna de la sierra [the mountain moon] and Reinar después de morir [to reign... Read more |
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El Capitan
El Capitan (1896), a comic opera by Charles Klein (book), John Philip Sousa (music, lyrics), Tom Frost (lyrics). [Broadway Theatre, 112 perf.] Don Medigua ( De Wolf Hopper), the viceroy of Peru, captures the rebel El Capitan, executes him, and assumes his place in disguise. The rebels capture... Read more |
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Pedro Cieza de Leon
Pedro Cieza de León , 1518?-1560, Spanish soldier and explorer in South America. His Chronicle of Peru is one of the most richly detailed accounts of the Spanish conquest. Bibliography: See El Inca, abr. Eng. tr. (1959) by H. de Onís.... Read more |
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