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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Alessandro de Medici
Alessandro de' Medici , 1510?-37, duke of Florence (1532-37); probably an illegitimate son of Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino. His prominence began when Pope Clement VII , then head of the Medici family succeeded (1530) in restoring the Medici to power in Florence after a three-year banishment.... Read more |
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Jacques Tati
TATI, Jacques Nationality:French. Born:Jacques Tatischeff in Le Pecq, France, 9 October 1908. Education:Attended Lycée de St.-Germain-en-Laye; also attended a college of arts and engineering, 1924. Family:Married Micheline Winter, 1944; children: Sophie... Read more |
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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 |
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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 |
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