Juan Meléndez Valdés: Quick Facts

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Born	March 11, 1754 • Spain
Died	May 24, 1817 (aged 63) • Montpellier • France

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

St. John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross

Spanish mystic

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Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas

Spanish author

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Pedro López de Ayala

Spanish poet and chronicler

Núñez de Arce, Gaspar

Gaspar Núñez de Arce

Spanish poet

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Moses ibn Ezra

Spanish-Jewish poet

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Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo

Spanish writer and diplomat

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Santiago Carrillo

Spanish political leader

Balaguer, Victor

Victor Balaguer

Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Spanish writer

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José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

Spanish dramatist

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Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses

Spanish writer

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Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa

Spanish writer and statesman

Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.

Hugo Grotius

Dutch statesman and scholar

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Ibn al-Abbār

Islamic scholar

Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.

Charles V

Holy Roman emperor

Francisco Franco in military uniform and cap, looking slightly to the side in an undated black and white portrait.

Francisco Franco

ruler of Spain

Christopher Columbus

Isabella I

queen of Spain

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés

Spanish conquistador

Portrait of Philip II, King of Spain, shown in ornate armor with one hand resting on a helmet, painted in the manner of Sir Anthony More against a dark background.

Philip II

king of Spain and Portugal

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines