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Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas
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Born March 10, 1791 • Córdoba • Spain
Died June 22, 1865 (aged 74) • Madrid • Spain
Notable Works “Don Alvaro, o la fuerza del sino” • “El moro expósito” • “Romances históricos”
Movement / Style Romanticism
Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa
Spanish writer and statesman
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Núñez de Arce, Gaspar
Gaspar Núñez de Arce
Spanish poet
Balaguer, Victor
Victor Balaguer
Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
Spanish dramatist
Pedro López de Ayala
Spanish poet and chronicler
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
St. John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo
Spanish writer and diplomat
Juan Meléndez Valdés
Spanish poet
Zorrilla y Moral, José
José Zorrilla y Moral
Spanish writer
José de Espronceda y Delgado
Spanish poet
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, detail of a portrait by Federico de Madrazo, 1857.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Cuban Spanish playwright
Samaranch, Juan António
Juan Antonio Samaranch, marquis de Samaranch
Spanish businessman and public official
Baltazar de Zúñiga
Spanish diplomat and statesman
José Moñino y Redondo, conde de Floridablanca
Spanish statesman
Moses ibn Ezra
Spanish-Jewish poet
Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, count de Aranda
Spanish statesman
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Spanish writer
Francisco Serrano y Domínguez, duke de la Torre
regent of Spain

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