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Born March 25, 1808 • Almendralejo • Spain
Died May 23, 1842 (aged 34) • Madrid • Spain
Founder Republican Party
Notable Works “El estudiante de Salamanca”
Movement / Style Romanticism
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, detail of a portrait by Federico de Madrazo, 1857.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Cuban Spanish playwright
Zorrilla y Moral, José
José Zorrilla y Moral
Spanish writer
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Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas
Spanish author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author
Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida, visconde (viscount) de Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett
Portuguese writer
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
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Agustín Durán
Spanish literary critic
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Antonio García Gutiérrez
Spanish writer
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Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa
Spanish writer and statesman
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, père
French author [1802–1870]
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, oil painting by F.C. Groger, 1815; in the National Historical Museum at Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Den.
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
Danish author
Słowacki, Juliusz
Juliusz Słowacki
Polish author
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Alfred de Musset
French author

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