Luis de León, was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic.
Villena is a city in Spain, in the Valencian Community. It is located at the northwest part of Alicante, and borders to the west with Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia, to the north with the province of Valencia and to the east and south with the province of Alicante. It is the capital of the comarca of the Alto Vinalopó. The municipality has an area of 345.6 km² and a population of 34,144 inhabitants as of INE 2023.
José Manuel Caballero Bonald was a Spanish novelist, lecturer and poet.
Lope de Barrientos (1382–1469), sometimes called Obispo Barrientos, was a powerful clergyman and statesman of the Crown of Castile during the 15th century, although his prominence and the influence he wielded during his lifetime is not a subject of common study in Spanish history.
The University of Alicante was established in 1979 on the basis of the Center for University Studies (CEU), which was founded in 1968. The university main campus is located in San Vicente del Raspeig/Sant Vicent del Raspeig, bordering the city of Alicante to the north. As of 2011/12 academic year, there are approximately 27,500 students studying there.
José María Soler García was a Spanish archaeologist, historian, researcher and folklorist. He is one of the persons who most deeply studied Villena and its surrounding area, since the vast majority of his research was focused on what concerned his hometown.
Peteroa is a small town west southwest of the town of Sagrada Familia, Chile.
Alonso de Figueroa y Cordova was a Spanish soldier who, in the days of the reign of Philip IV of Spain, temporarily carried out the position of Captain General and Royal Governor of Chile, besides president of its Real Audiencia of Chile. His government lasted for 13 months, between April 1649 and May 1650. He was the grandfather of the Chilean historian Pedro de Cordoba y Figueroa.
The economy of Hispania, or Roman Iberia, experienced a strong revolution during and after the conquest of the peninsular territory by Rome, in such a way that, from an unknown but promising land, it came to be one of the most valuable acquisitions of both the Republic and Empire and a basic pillar that sustained the rise of Rome.
Germán Gullón, literary critic and writer, is a professor of Spanish literature and member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He has authored, beside his scholarly works and essays, two books of short stories, Adiós, Helena de Troya and Azulete, and two novels, Querida hija and La codicia de Guillermo de Orange.
The vice president of El Salvador is a political position in El Salvador which is elected concurrently with the position of President of El Salvador.
The Fencing Master is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Pedro Olea based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Arturo Pérez-Reverte which stars Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, and Joaquim de Almeida. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Blanca López de Mariscal or Blanca Guadalupe López Morales is a Professor emeritus and researcher in literature at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, México.
Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto is a Spanish literary theorist and critic. He has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D. Secretary of the Academy from December 2009, he was elected director in 2014, post he held until January 2019.
The Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas facilitates cooperation among academic libraries in Spain. It formed in 1988, and in 1996 absorbed the Conferencia de Directores de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Científicas Españolas (COBIDUCE). Since 1998 it represents library interests in the Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas.
María Vinyals y Ferrés (1875–1940s), also known as the Marquise of Ayerbe, was a Spanish publicist and essayist.
Escape from Segovia is a 1981 Spanish prison-break film directed by Imanol Uribe from a screenplay by Ángel Amigo and Uribe consisting of a dramatized account of the 1976 Segovia prison break. The cast is led by Xabier Elorriaga, Mario Pardo, and Ovidi Montllor.
