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  2. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    Spanish literature is literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) ... It is the verse form of the learned poets, usually clerics (hence the name 'clerecía'). The ...

  3. Piccolo - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute, the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the standard transverse flute, [3] but the sound it produces is an octave higher. This has given rise to the name ottavino [ a ] ( Italian pronunciation: [ottaˈviːno] ), by which the instrument is called in Italian [ 4 ] and thus ...

  4. List of works influenced by Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    The novel Don Quixote (/ ˌ d ɒ n k iː ˈ h oʊ t i /; Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [1]) was written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon.

  5. Spanish-language literature - Wikipedia

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    Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .

  6. List of Spanish writers - Wikipedia

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    Jerónimo de Pasamonte (1553–after 1605), writer during the Spanish Golden Age; Paul Pen (born 1979), author of literary fiction, thriller and suspense; Andrés Pascual (born 1969), novelist; Ánxeles Penas (born 1943), poet; Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), realist novelist considered by some to be second only to Cervantes in stature as ...

  7. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Currently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name (nombre in Spanish) and two surnames (apellidos in Spanish). A composite given name is composed of two (or more) single names; for example, Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename. [6]

  8. Francisco María Píccolo - Wikipedia

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    Piccolo crossed the Gulf of California to be Salvatierra's assistant about a month later. Piccolo founded the second Baja California mission, San Francisco Javier, among the Cochimí, in 1699 and served there until 1701, when he abandoned the mission, due to threats from the indigenous population. He then returned to Mexico City where he worked ...

  9. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Wikipedia

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    Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), [1] better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡusˈtaβo aˈðolfo ˈβekeɾ]), was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.