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BOOKS ABOUT
SPAIN &
SPANISH CULTURE
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
b. 1-17-1600; Madrid
d. 5-25-1681
Pedro Calderon de la Barca was a writer, poet and dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age which coincided with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca quotes ~
• “One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
• “What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”
• “Love that is not madness is not love.”
• Life is a Dream, Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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El Cid
c. 1043; Vivar
d. 7-10-1099; Valencia
The life of military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better remembered as El Cid, is the basis of the epic poem, El Cantar de Myo Cid (The Song of My Lord or The Lay of the Cid). He was an important figure in the Spanish fight against the Moors.
FYI - El Cid comes from the Spanish article El (The) and the Arabic word I which means Lord or Master.
El Cid's warhorse was named Babieca; his swords, Tizona and Colada.
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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
b. 9-29-1547; Spain
d. 4-23-1616; Madrid
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quijote, a classic of Western literature and one of the best novels ever written. The musical The Man of La Mancha is based on Don Quijote, as is a ballet.
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Cervantes quotes ~
• “He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”
• “I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”
• “Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”
• Don Quixote by Picasso poster
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St. Ignatius of Loyola
b. 4-20-1491; Barcelona, Spain
d. 12-25-1556; Rome
Ignacio López de Loyola was the founder of the Jesuits Order. A knight who experienced a conversion while recuperating from battle wounds, Ignatius is a patron saint of soldiers.
• more Christianity posters
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Lope de Vega
b. 11-25-1562; Madrid, Spain
d. 8-27-1635, Madrid
Lope Felix de Vega y Carpio, one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature, was an important playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature, second only to Cervantes.
• Three Major Plays of Lope de Vega
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Joan Miro
b. 4-20-1893; Barcelona, Spain
d. 12-25-1983; Palma, Majorca, Spain
Surrealist Joan Miro paints with childlike exuberance in joyful rebellion against conventional painting methods. Influenced by the 1920’s Paris counterculture, his art is filled with wonderful absurdity. He often uses primary and secondary colors as well as organic shapes to convey a lively, energetic zest for life – beyond mere child’s play.
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Pablo Picasso
b. 10-25-1881; Málaga, Spain
d. 4-8-1973; Mougins, France
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was one of the 20th Century's most recognized artists. Picasso was best known as a painter, and along with Georges Braque, founded Cubism where objects are "taken apart" and reassembled to depict the subject from multiple perspectives at one moment. Picasso also was a printmaker and sculptor.
• more Pablo Picasso posters
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Juan Ponce de Leon
b. c 1460; Spain
d. July, 1521; Cuba
Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León was on the second voyage of Christopher Columbus and became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish Crown. He is notable in Florida history as the first known European exploration (1513) and calling the land “La Florida” and the legend of the Fountain of Youth.
• famous explorers posters
• more Hispanic Heritage posters
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Miguel de Unamuno
b. 9-29-1864; Basque, Spain
d. 12-31-1936
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a philosopher and writer. He was opposed to Franco and died under house arrest in 1936.
Miguel de Unamuno quotes ~
• “Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”
• “True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.”
• “Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.”
• “There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”
• “Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
• “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
• “Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.”
• “Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.”
• “That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.”
• “If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”
• Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno
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