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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , 1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, b. Alcalá de Henares. Life Little is known of Cervantes's youth. He went to Italy (1569), where, in the service of a cardinal, he studied Italian literature and philosophy,... Read more
Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda , pen name used by the unknown Spanish writer who published a spurious second part of Don Quixote in 1614, before Cervantes's own second part appeared (1615). The book is usually referred to as El Quijote apócrifo [the spurious Don Quixote], and its... Read more
Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes
M IGUELD EC ERVANTES Born: c. 1547 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Died: April 23, 1616 Madrid, Spain Spanish author and novelist Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes is one of the greatest novelists of the Spanish language. His... Read more
saraband saraband
saraband , dance of Asian origin that first appeared in Spain in the 16th cent. At that time it was characterized by alternate 3-4 and 3-8 meter and was accompanied by castanets and tambourines. Cervantes denounced it for its indecent gestures, and it was suppressed at the end of the reign of Philip... Read more
Carlos Cervantes Carlos Cervantes
CERVANTES, Gary (Carlos Gary Cervantes, Gary Carlos Cervantes) PERSONAL Career: Actor. CREDITS Film Appearances: Big Happy, Boulevard Nights, 1979. Carlos, Walk Proud, 1979. Zoot–suiter, 1941, 1979. Mazenza, "Bishop of Battle," Nightmares, 1983. Shooter #1, Scarface,... Read more
interlude interlude
interlude development in the late 15th cent. of the English medieval morality play. Played between the acts of a long play, the interlude, treating intellectual rather than moral topics, often contained elements of satire or farce. The form developed in Italy as the intermedio and intermezzo , in... Read more
battle of Lepanto battle of Lepanto
battle of Lepanto , Oct. 7, 1571, naval battle between the Christians and Ottomans fought in the strait between the gulfs of Pátrai and Corinth, off Lepanto (Návpaktos), Greece. The fleet of the Holy League commanded by John of Austria (d. 1578) opposed the Ottoman fleet under... Read more
Valladolid Valladolid
Valladolid , city (1990 pop. 333,680), capital of Valladolid prov., N central Spain, in Castile-León, at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers and on the Canal de Castilla. A communications and manufacturing center, Valladolid is also an important grain market. The city has played... Read more
satire satire
satire term applied to any work of literature or art whose objective is ridicule. It is more easily recognized than defined. From ancient times satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises—vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality—and... Read more
Lope de Vega Lope de Vega
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562-1635), Spain's greatest dramatist, wrote so many plays that Cervantes called him "Nature's mental colossus." Among his sources were history, folklore, saints' lives, the Bible, New World travel reports, mythology, and... Read more

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