Francisco Rico Manrique (28 April 1942 – 27 April 2024) was a Spanish

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Biography

Rico Manrique was a student of José Manuel Blecua and

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. He was a professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the

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and, since 1987, a member of the

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as well as the Académia das Ciéncias de Lisboa, the

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and the

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. On 13 March 1986, he was elected to Seat ''p'' of the

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. He took up his seat on 4 June 1987. Rico Manrique had edited many classics from the medieval period and the "

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", and had written numerous studies on medieval and renaissance literature. He had also edited the ''Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española'' (Nine volumes, with supplements). Rico Manrique later oversaw the ''Classical Library'' series (started by Editorial Crítica and now a part of "Reader's Circle", a division of

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) following guidelines from the ''Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles'', which Rico began and helped to develop. In 1998, he was awarded the twelfth

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and, in 2004, the

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National Research Prize. Rico Manrique died in

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on 27 April 2024, at the age of 81.

Selected works

* ''La novela picaresca y el punto de vista'', Seix Barral (1970). English translation, ''The Picaresque Novel and the Point of View'', Cambridge Univ. press, 1984. * ''Alfonso el Sabio y la "General Estoria"'', Ariel (1972) * ''Primera cuarentena y Tratado general de literatura'', El Festín de Esopo (1982) * ''Texto y contextos: Estudios sobre la poesía española del siglo XV'', Grijalba Mondadori (1991) * ''El sueño del humanismo'' Alianza (1993) * ''Figuras con paisaje'', Destino (1994) * ''Los discursos del gusto'', Destino (2003) * ''Tiempos del "Quijote"'', Acantilado (2012)

About Rico

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External links

Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rico Manrique, Francisco 1942 births 2024 deaths Spanish literary critics Members of the Royal Spanish Academy Members of the Lincean Academy Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Barcelona Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Cervantists People from Barcelona 20th-century Spanish philologists 21st-century philologists