Lupercio leonardo de argensola biography of christopher
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Spanish Golden Age
Period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
Not to be confused with Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain.
The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de bekymmer Spanish pronunciation:[ˈsiɣloðeˈoɾo], "Golden Century") (1492 - 1700)[1] was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs. This era saw a flourishing of literature and the arts in Spain. The most significant patron of Spanish art and culture during this time was King Philip II (1556–1598). However, the period is more broadly associated with the reigns of Isabella inom, Ferdinand II, Charles V, Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV, when Spain was at the peak of its power and influence in europe and the world.
During this period, Philip II's royal palace, El Escorial, attracted some of Europe's greatest architects and painters, including El Greco. These artists introduced foreign styles to Sp
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Spanish Studies: Literature, 1490–1700
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The volume Representing Women’s Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World, ed. by Jean Andrews and Jeremy Roe (London: Routledge, 2021), 358 pp., includes several interesting chapters. Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, ‘The Monastery I Have Built in this City of Madrid: Mapping Juana of Austria’s Royal Spaces in the Descalzas Reales Convent’ (127–145), provides a detailed and scholarly account that repays reading despite the awkwardness of the English, including as it does, in addition to much fascinating detail on the nunnery itself and Juana’s apartments in it, sensible comments on the 1559 portrait by the court painter Alonso Sánchez Coello, now in Bilbao, and on Juana’s role at court after she ceased to be regent for her brother—successively as counsellor, companion/adviser on protocol to Felipe II’s wives Isabel and Ana, and doyenne of what Gschwend calls the ‘feminine spaces’ in the king’s severa
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1562 – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish writer, poet, and historian who is remembered for his witty poems and his commentaries on contemporary events. His brother Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola was also a prominent poet and historian.
1623 – Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, German author, naturalist, botanist, physician, and alchemist. He published Anthropometria, an early study of anthropometry, which examines the perceived relationship between proportions of the human body and incidence of disease, and was a pioneer in the fields of hygiene and nutrition; in his writings on holistic health, he stressed the importance of clean air and water, healthy food and drink, and personal cleanliness. He also investigated the possibilities of intravenous injection and performed early research of blood transfusions. Some sources give his birthday as August 28.
1688 – Egidio Forcellini, Italian writer, linguist, philologist, lexicologist, and Catholic priest. His b