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Hemingway named his character Romero for Pedro Romero, shown here in Goya's etching Pedro Romero Killing the Halted Bull (1816). Hemingway presents matadors as heroic characters dancing in a bullring. He considered the bullring as war with precise rules, in contrast to the messiness of the real war that he, and by extension Jake, experienced. [34]
Pedro Romero Martínez (19 November 1754 – 10 February 1839) was a bullfighter from the Romero family in Ronda, Spain. His grandfather Francisco is credited with advancing the art of using the muleta ; his father and two brothers were also toreros .
The Dangerous Summer is an edited version of a 75,000-word manuscript Hemingway wrote between October 1959 and May 1960 as an assignment from Life magazine. Hemingway summoned his close friend Will Lang Jr. to come to Spain to deliver the story to Life.
However, Hemingway insisted that Gardner play Lady Brett so Zanuck went after her and succeeded in getting her to sign. [13] "I am convinced Lady Brett Ashley is the most interesting character I have ever played", said Gardner. [3] Zanuck later claimed that the casting of Gardner forced the film to be postponed from September 1956 to February 1957.
The most important of them was Pedro Romero (1754-1839), a key figure in the history of bullfighting who slew more than 5,600 bulls. The Romero and Ordóñez families were known for their great bullfights in the Plaza, and bronze statues of Cayetano Ordóñez and son Antonio Ordóñez stand outside one of the entrances to the bullring.
Romero is family of bullfighters from Ronda, Spain, dating back to the 18th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The only other family with a comparable history in bullfighting are the Ordóñez , whose founder, Cayetano Ordóñez , "El Niño de la Palmas", was also from Ronda.
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"The Three-Day Blow" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 New York edition of In Our Time, by Boni & Liveright. [1] The story is the fourth in the collection to feature Nick Adams , Hemingway's autobiographical alter ego .