Miguel Mañara Vicentelo de Leca (3 March 1627 – 9 May 1679) was the main founder of the Hospital de la Caridad in

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Life

Family background

Born in Seville, his family originated in

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. His father Tomás Mañara Leca y Colona had been born in Calvi.

Childhood

Youth

Wife's death

Mañara and the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad

Beginnings and appointment as elder brother

The Hospital de la Caridad

Mañara's work

Death

A cause for Mañara's

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was formally opened on 24 September 1754, granting him the title of

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Reputation as a seducer

Appearances in literature

In French literature Mañara was the subject of

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's novella ''Les Âmes du purgatoire'' (1834) and

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's play ''Don Juan de Marana ou la chute d'un ange'' (1836).

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, Antoine de Latour, Edmond Haraucourt and Pierre-Paul Raoul Colonna de Cesari Rocca also wrote about him, while

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dedicated a chapter to him in ''Du sang de la volupté et de la mort'' (1900) '' Don Juan de Marana'' was also the title of an opera by the British writer

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. In the 20th century

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also wrote about him, while the brothers

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and

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produced the play ''Don Juan de Mañara'' (1927). There is also a four-act opera with six music-frames by Henri Tomasi and a libretto adapted from Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz's play ''Miguel Mañara''. Finally, Esther van Loo produced a pseudo-historical biography ''Le vrai Don Juan, Don Miguel Mañara'', published in Paris in 1950.

External links

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Mañara, Valdés Leal y las postrimerías del Hospital de la Caridad de Sevilla
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Bibliography

* ''Discurso de la verdad'',

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, 1778, en la imprenta de Don Luis Bexinez y Castilla, Impresor Mayor de la Ciudad, edición facsímil,

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, 2007, Extramuros Edición. * Carlos Ros Carballar, ''Miguel Mañara, caballero de los pobres'', (2002), Editorial San Pablo. * Juan Pablo Navarro Rivas, ''Miguel Mañara. El rico que sirvió a los pobres'', (2017), Editorial Maratania.

References

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