by Martoke | Dec 24, 2024 | Sin categoría
Diego Torres Villarroel (Salamanca, 1693 – id., 1770) Spanish writer and poet whose work developed the autobiographical genre as a novelistic form. His life: Son of a bookseller, he studied Latin grammar with the humanist Don Juan González de Dios. Around the...
by Martoke | Dec 17, 2024 | Sin categoría
Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627) was one of the most prominent poets and playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, known for his complex and erudite style that would later be called “gongorismo” or “culteranismo”. Born in Córdoba, Spain,...
by Martoke | Dec 10, 2024 | Sin categoría
Lucía de Medrano was a Spanish intellectual of the Renaissance, notable for being one of the first women in Europe to teach at a university. She was born in Salamanca, Spain, in the year 1465. Medrano stood out at a time when access to education and academic roles was...
by Martoke | Jun 12, 2024 | Sin categoría
Francisco Salinas (1513-1590) was a prominent musician and music theorist of the Spanish Renaissance. Born in Burgos, Salinas was noted both for his skill as an organist and for his significant contributions to the study and theory of music during his time. Despite...
by Martoke | Jun 4, 2024 | Sin categoría
Fray Luis de León was a Spanish poet, theologian and mystic of the Renaissance, considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature of the Golden Age. Born in 1527 in Belmonte, in the province of Cuenca, and died in 1591 in Madrigal de las Altas Torres,...
