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Pedro Lopez de Ayala Pedro Lopez de Ayala
Pedro López de Ayala , 1332-1407, Spanish statesman, poet, and chronicler. As a royal official in Castile, he served Peter the Cruel, Henry II, John I, and Henry III, rising to become chancellor of Castile (1398-1407). He is best known for his chronicle of the reigns of the four kings he... Read more
Madre de Dios Madre de Dios
Madre de Dios , river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising in the Andes of SE Peru and flowing NE through NW Bolivia to the Beni River. It is a major artery of NW Bolivia, but frequent rapids make its lower course only partly navigable. It drains a rubber-producing region.... Read more
Ramon Perez de Ayala Ramon Perez de Ayala
Ramón Pérez de Ayala , 1880?-1962, Spanish writer. He was educated at Jesuit schools, which he satirized in the novel A.M.D.G. (1910). His early realistic novels, among them The Fox's Paw (1912, tr. 1924), reveal ties with the Generation of '98 . After 1916 his novels became... Read more
Dio Cassius Dio Cassius
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio Cocceianus) , c.155-235?, Roman historian and administrator, b. Nicaea in Bithynia. He was a grandson of Dio Chrysostom. His rise in civil and military office was steady; he became a senator (c.180), praetor (193), consul (220?), proconsul in Africa (224), legate in... Read more
Caledonii Caledonii
Caledonii. The people of the Scottish Highlands. For a people on the very fringes of the known world, the Caledonians make an appearance in the works of a surprising number of Roman writers including Lucan, Martial, Ptolemy, Dio Cassius, and several lesser authors. Xiphilinus tells us that... Read more
Carlos De Siguenza Y GOngora Carlos De Siguenza Y GOngora
SIGüENZA Y GÓNGORA, CARLOS DE(b. Mexico City, 20 August 1645; d . Mexico City, 22 August 1700)mathematics, astronomy, natural history.Sigüenza’s father was tutor to Prince Baltazar before going to New Spain. After receiving his first education at home, Sigüenza entered the Jesuit Colegio de... Read more
Juan Martinez Montanes Juan Martinez Montanes
Montañés, Juan Martínez (bapt. Alcalá la Real, nr. Granada, 16 Mar. 1568; d Seville, 18 June 1649). The greatest Spanish sculptor of the 17th century, known as ‘el dios de la madera’ (the god of wood) because of his mastery as a carver. He was active mainly in... Read more
Catuvellauni Catuvellauni
Catuvellauni. A British tribe and civitas. The Catuvellauni first appear in Roman records in Dio Cassius' account of the Claudian invasion of ad 43, where they led the opposition to the Roman forces. From the information Dio provides, we can trace the tribal kingdom back at least three generations... Read more
Christopher Newport Christopher Newport
Christopher Newport 1565?-1617, English mariner, commander of early voyages to Virginia. He commanded a privateering expedition to the West Indies (1592) that returned to England with the Spanish vessel Madre de Dios, the richest prize ever taken by the Elizabethan privateers. He was employed by... Read more
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca , 1600-1681, Spanish dramatist, last important figure of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. Educated at a Jesuit school and the Univ. of Salamanca, he turned from theology to poetry and became a court poet in 1622. His more than 100 plays were carefully contrived,... Read more

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