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Born May 5, 1282 • Spain
Died 1348 (aged 65) • Córdoba • Spain
Notable Works “Count Lucanor: or, The Fifty Pleasant Stories of Patronio” • “Libro de los estados” • “Libro del caballero y del escudero”
Luis de León
Luis de León
Spanish poet
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Spanish author
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet
José Gutiérrez Solana
Spanish painter and writer
José de Cadalso y Vázquez
Spanish writer
Alonso de Castillo Solorzano
Spanish writer
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet
Samuel Putnam
American editor and author
Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
Portuguese poet
Richard Flecknoe
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Concha Espina de Serna
Spanish author
Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
Serafín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
Garci Ordóñez Rodríguez de Montalvo
Spanish writer
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author