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Literatura
La historia de literatura
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a master of Latin rhetoric or his son of the same name, who was a stoic philosopher | SENECA |
| Aragonese poet famous for his witty Latin epigrams | Martial |
| 12th Century Muslim philosopher from Córdoba who introduced Aristotle to the West | Averroes |
| The center of scholarship in Muslim Spain | Córdoba |
| Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar | El Cid |
| 13th Century center of Spanish culture under Alfonso el Sabio | Toledo |
| Archpriest of Hita and author of the Libro de Buen Amor | Juan Ruiz |
| 15th Century author of an elegy on the death of his father | Jorge Manrique |
| Prose romance in dramatic form that deals with a manipulative old woman | La Celestina |
| Dominican friar who wrote in defense of Native Americans during the days of the Spanish conquest | Bartolomé de las Casas |
| Spanish poet whose use of Italian Renaissance styles inaugurated a literary Golden Age | Garcilaso de la Vega |
| Spanish Baroque poet who advocated dense, rich poetry | Góngora |
| Poet whose elaborate metaphors created a style known as "conceptismo" | Francisco Quevedo |
| Author of Don Quixote, one of the masterpieces of world literature | Cervantes |
| dramatist once called the "Monstruo de Natura" because of his tremendous output | Lope de Vega |
| Golden Age dramatist who wrote Life Is a Dream | Calderón de la Barca |
| Home of Santa Teresa and her follower, San Juan de la Cruz | Ávila |
| 19th Century Galician author who wrote in Galician and Spanish | Rosalia Castro |
| Poet of Spain's Generation of '98 who wrote of Andalucia and Castille | Antonio Machado |
| Author of Plater y Yo, about a man's adventures with his donkey | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| Murcian farm laborer who taught himself poetry; he died as a result of the Spanish Civil War | Miguel Hernández |
| Granada's great 20th Century poet, famous for capturing the passionate spirit of Andalusia | Federico García Lorca |
| Essayist and philosopher who chose exile rather than life in Franco's Spain | José Ortega y Gasset |
| Bombed-out town that has been left standing in ruins as a reminder of destruction that resulted from the Spanish Civil War | Belcite |
| José Martínez Ruiz, 20th Century novelist | Azorín |
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