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Sebastian Francisco De Medrano
Sebastian Francisco de Medrano (Madrid, 1590 – 1653) was the president and founder of the Poetic Academy of Madrid (also known as the Medrano Academy), located on Leganitos street in Madrid. He was a poet, playwright of the Baroque, Baroque period, chief chaplain and chief almoner, Priest at San Pedro el Real, Madrid, San Pedro el Real, Protonotary apostolic, Protonotary Apostolic of the Pope, Apostolic Judge, treasurer for Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, 3rd Duke of Feria, Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, III Duke of Feria, and commissioner of the Inquisition, official censor of comedies. Medrano's Academy was famous for hosting key figures in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque, Baroque literature, some of the greatest to attend his academy are Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Francisco de Quevedo and many others. Background Sebastian Francisco de Medrano belonged to the powerful and academic Medrano family, one of the most widespread families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protonotary Apostolic
In the Roman Catholic Church, protonotary apostolic (PA; Latin: ''protonotarius apostolicus'') is the title for a member of the highest non-episcopal college of prelates in the Roman Curia or, outside Rome, an honorary prelate on whom the pope has conferred this title and its special privileges. An example is Prince Georg of Bavaria (1880–1943), who became in 1926 Protonotary by papal decree. History In late antiquity, there were in Rome seven regional notaries who, on the further development of the papal administration and the accompanying increase of the notaries, remained the supreme palace notaries of the papal chancery (''notarii apostolici'' or '' protonotarii''). In the Middle Ages, the protonotaries were very high papal officials and were often raised directly from this office to the cardinalate. Originally numbering seven, Pope Sixtus V (1585–90) increased their number to twelve. Their importance gradually diminished, and at the time of the French Revolution, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viceroyalty Of Peru
The Viceroyalty of Peru ( es, Virreinato del Perú, links=no) was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima. The Viceroyalty of Peru was officially called the Kingdom of Peru. Peru was one of the two Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The Spanish did not resist the Portuguese expansion of Brazil across the meridian established by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The treaty was rendered meaningless between 1580 and 1640 while Spain controlled Portugal. The creation during the 18th century of Viceroyalties of New Granada and Río de la Plata (at the expense of Peru's territory) reduced the importance of Lima and shifted the lucrative Andean trade to Buenos Aires, while the fall of the mining and textile production accelerated the progressive decay of the Viceroyalty of Peru. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan De Espinosa Medrano
Juan de Espinosa Medrano (Calcauso?, 1630? – Cuzco, 1688), known in history as ''Lunarejo'' (or "The Spotty-Faced"), was an Indigenous cleric, sacred preacher, writer, playwright, theologian and polymath from the Viceroyalty of Peru. He is the most prominent figure of the Literary Baroque of Peru and one of the most important intellectuals from Colonial Spanish America (along with the New Spain writers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora). Juan de Espinosa Medrano is the author of the most famous literary apologetic discourse in the Americas in the 17th century: the ''Apologético en favor de Don Luis de Góngora'' (1662). He also wrote ''autos sacramentales'' in Quechua —''El robo de Proserpina y sueño de Endimión'' (c. 1650) and ''El hijo pródigo'' (c. 1657)—; comedies in Spanish —out of which only the biblical play ''Amar su propia muerte'' (c. 1650) is preserved—; panegyric sermons —compiled after his death in a volume called ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Fernández De Medrano
Tomás Fernández de Medrano was a 16th-century nobleman from the Medrano family in La Rioja, Spain. He was the Secretary of State and War of the Dukes of Savoy, lord of Valdeosera, knight in the Order of St.John, and the Patron of the Convent of Saint John of Acre in the town of Salinas de Añana. He also served for 8 years in the service of Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Count of Olivares (as well as Secretary of the Marques de Torilla 1579-1581). He was a writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of "''Mixed Republic''" published in Madrid In 1602. He was married to Doña Isabel de Sandoval, relative of the first Duke of Lerma Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, whom Medrano would dedicate the Mixed Republic to. Military Service in the Galleys of Genoa as Secretary for Giovanni Andrea Doria Marquis of Torrilla (1579-1581) A letter from the Duke of Savoy (dated 16 October 1596) reveals Tomas Fernandez de Medrano's service to the crown on the galleys of Genoa. Don Tomás served in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Velaz De Medrano
Pedro Velaz de Medrano y Manso de Zúñiga, II Lord of Tabuérniga (Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja July 28, 1603 – Coimbra, c. 1659) was the captain general of the Armada de Barlovento and custodian of the Spanish treasure fleet, Fleet of New Spain, governor of the Tercio of Álava, governor of five galleons from Naples, sailor and prominent spanish nobility, Spanish noble during the reign of Philip IV of Spain, Felipe IV. He is famous for having captained a French corsairs, French corsair flotilla in the Caribbean with the intention of capturing the Spanish treasure fleet for Louis XIV, King Louis XIV of France. He married María de Altamirano y Ponce de León. His son Don Antonio Vélaz de Medrano, I Marquess of Tabuérniga, Antonio Velaz de Medrano y Altamirano, Governor of the strategic city of Nieuwpoort, Belgium, Nieuwpoort became the I Marquis of Tabuerniga, granted by Charles II of Spain, King Carlos II of Spain in 1682. Ancestry Don Pedro Velaz de Medrano y M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Medrano (poet)
Francisco de Medrano y Villa ( Seville, 1570 - 1607) was a lyric poet from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, considered one of the best of the Spanish imitators of Horace, comparing favorably in that respect with Luis de León. He should not be confounded with Sebastian Francisco de Medrano who was also a poet and lived at about the same time. He belongs to the house of Medrano, a well-known and ancient noble family originally from Igúzquiza in the Kingdom of Navarre, prominent during the Spanish Golden Age. Life Medrano was born in Seville 1570. He was the son of Don Miguel de Medrano and Doña María de Villa. He entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest in 1594. He abandoned the order in 1602 and died in his hometown 1607. Works His poetry was influenced by works of Horace and Torquato Tasso. He wrote chiefly sonnets. Medrano's works were published at Palermo (1617) as an appendix to the imitation of Ovid's " Remedia Amoris" by Pedro Venegas de Saavedr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco De Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called '' conceptismo''. This style existed in stark contrast to Góngora's '' culteranismo''. Biography Quevedo was born on 14 September 1580 in Madrid into a family of ''hidalgos'' from the village of Vejorís, located in the northern mountainous region of Cantabria. His family was descended from the Castilian nobility. Quevedo's father, Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, was secretary to Maria of Spain, daughter of emperor Charles V and wife of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his mother, Madrid-born María de Santibáñez, was lady-in-waiting to the queen. Quevedo matured surrounded by dignitaries and nobility at the royal co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Calderón De La Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (, ; ; 17 January 160025 May 1681) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. He is known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for his plays. Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid, where he spent most of his life. He was born on a boat in the Manzanares river, thus the name "de la Barca" added to his father's last name. During his life, he served as soldier and he was a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre. As such, he is regarded as one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature. Biography Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid on Friday, 17 January 1600, and was baptized in the parish of San Martín. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis De Góngora
Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora; ; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. His style is characterized by what was called '' culteranismo'', also known as ''Gongorismo''. This style existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's '' conceptismo''. Biography Góngora was born to a noble family in Córdoba, where his father, Francisco de Argote, was ''corregidor,'' or judge. In a Spanish era when purity of Christian lineage (limpieza de sangre) was needed to gain access to education or official appointments, he adopted the surname of his mother, Leonor de Góngora.Asociación Cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lope De Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio ( , ; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that of Miguel de Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled, making him one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature. He was nicknamed "The Phoenix of Wits" and "Monster of Nature" (in es , Fénix de los Ingenios , links=no, ) by Cervantes because of his prolific nature. Lope de Vega renewed the Spanish theatre at a time when it was starting to become a mass cultural phenomenon. He defined its key characteristics, and along with Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina, took Spanish Baroque theatre to its greatest heights. Because of the insight, depth and ease of his plays, he is regarded as one of the greatest dramatists in Western literature, his plays still be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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