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Don Juan (1819) First Ed. In English literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. [1] As genre literature, Don Juan is an epic poem, written in ...
Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
Juan Haldudo, a peasant, and Andres (Andrés), his mistreated servant. Maria Zoraida, the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Algiers who is a Christian convert. She escaped Algiers with some captured Christians via boat. Maritornes, a half-blind servant girl at the inn in which Quixote stayed in. She is unwittingly involved in a brawl in the ...
Juan José Soto Pacheco (born October 25, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals and San Diego Padres. Soto signed with the Nationals as an international free agent in 2015. He made his MLB debut in 2018 and was ...
Lord Byron. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. [1][2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3][4][5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [6] Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's ...
Guantanamera. " Guantanamera " (pronounced [ɡwantanaˈmeɾa]; Spanish for 'The woman from Guantánamo ') [1] is a Cuban patriotic song, which uses a poem by the Cuban poet José Martí for the lyrics. The official writing credits have been given to Joseíto Fernández, who first popularized the song on radio as early as 1929 (although it is ...
14th century. The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (Spanish: El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra) is a play traditionally attributed to Tirso de Molina, although several scholars now attribute it to Andrés de Claramonte. Its title varies according to the English translation, and it has also been published under the titles The ...
Santa María was built in Pontevedra, Galicia. [1][2] Santa María was a medium-sized commercial nau or carrack, about 62 ft (18.9 m) long on deck, and according to Juan Escalante de Mendoza in 1575, Santa Maria was " very little larger than 100 toneladas" (about 100 tons, or tuns) burthen, or burden, [3][4][5] and was used as the flagship for ...