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Ateneo De Sevilla
The Ateneo de Sevilla, originally called Excursions Ateneo and Society, is a cultural association in Seville, Spain which was founded in 1887 by Dr. Manuel Gaudencio Sales y Ferrèr. It became prominent in the early 20th century and was known for its meetings of the Generation of '27. Activities Writers such as Juan Ramón Jiménez, José María Izquierdo, and Joaquín Romero Murube were all members of the Ateneo de Sevilla. Jiménez came from his native city of Moguer to Seville to pursue a degree in law. He is known for writing ''Platero and I'' and The Diary of a Newlywed Poet'. He claimed that he became a writer and poet in the library of Ateneo de Sevilla. The association also included politicians such as Pedro Rodríguez de la Borbolla, Blas Infante, Diego Martinez Barrio. and Miguel Bravo-Ferrer. The popular Kings Parade, which emerged in 1918, was an initiative of the Ateneo de Sevilla. The parade, organized by the Ateneo de Sevilla every year since, is prominent among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ateneo De Sevilla
The Ateneo de Sevilla, originally called Excursions Ateneo and Society, is a cultural association in Seville, Spain which was founded in 1887 by Dr. Manuel Gaudencio Sales y Ferrèr. It became prominent in the early 20th century and was known for its meetings of the Generation of '27. Activities Writers such as Juan Ramón Jiménez, José María Izquierdo, and Joaquín Romero Murube were all members of the Ateneo de Sevilla. Jiménez came from his native city of Moguer to Seville to pursue a degree in law. He is known for writing ''Platero and I'' and The Diary of a Newlywed Poet'. He claimed that he became a writer and poet in the library of Ateneo de Sevilla. The association also included politicians such as Pedro Rodríguez de la Borbolla, Blas Infante, Diego Martinez Barrio. and Miguel Bravo-Ferrer. The popular Kings Parade, which emerged in 1918, was an initiative of the Ateneo de Sevilla. The parade, organized by the Ateneo de Sevilla every year since, is prominent among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called ''Silver Age'' of Spanish Literature, and he won numerous prizes and awards. He died aged 96. After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile because of his Marxist beliefs. On his return to Spain after the death of Franco, he was named Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía in 1983 and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de Cádiz in 1985. He published his memoirs under the title of ''La Arboleda perdida'' (‘The Lost Grove’) in 1959 and this remains the best source of information on his early life. Life Early life The Puerto de Santa María at the mouth of the Guadalete River on the Bay of Cádiz was, as now, one of the major distribution outlets for the sherry trade from Jerez de la Frontera. Alberti was born there in 1902, to a family of vintners who had once been the most powerful in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunez Cabezas De Herrera
Nunez is the anglicized form of the Spanish surname Núñez ( es, Núñez}, ). The Portuguese (and Old Galician) variant is Nunes. Notable people with the name include: Academia * Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Cuban revolutionary and academic * Jorge Núñez Prida, Mexican engineer and Scouting president * Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian * Lautaro Núñez Atencio, Chilean historian Arts * Françoise Nuñez, French photographer Drama * Conchita Núñez (1943–2009), Spanish actress * Joseph Nunez, United States actor * Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor * Oscar Nunez, United States actor and comedian * Oscar Núñez (Argentine actor) Exploration * Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish explorer * Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador Literature Authors * Elizabeth Nunez, United States writer * Hernán Núñez (1475–1553), Spain writer and collector of proverbs * , Venezuelan philosopher * Sigrid Nunez, United States writer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Bacarisas
Gustavo Bacarisa (1872–1971) GMH was a Gibraltarian painter. He was born in Gibraltar and died in Seville, Spain. His work, of a figurative style and varied themes, is characterised by the rich use of colour. He was married to Swedish artist and designer Elsa Jernås. Career Bacarisas studied in Paris, France and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina until 1916. He later relocated to the Andalusian capital of Seville. He also travelled to Sweden in order to create the sets and figurines for the opera ''Carmen''. He did the same for the premier of ''El amor brujo'' ( es, Love, the Magician) at the ''Teatro Español'' in Madrid. During the Spanish civil war he relocated, this time to the Portuguese island of Madeira, returning in 1937 to Gibraltar. At the end of the Second World War, he moved to Spain, settling down in Seville. Bacarisas exhibited his work in many Spanish cities as well as abroad. He was granted a gold medal and the title of honorary professor by the Real Academia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romero Murube Labrador Llosent
The name Romero is a nickname type of surname for a Roman or an Italian. The name was originally derived from the Latin word Romaeus and the Greek word Romaios, which mean Roman. #A person on a religious journey or pilgrimage from Rome (possibly to Jerusalem) Other variations of the surname *Roemer, a Middle High German and Swiss name meaning a pilgrim to the Holy Land *Romer, an English and Dutch name meaning a religious pilgrim or religious warrior carrying a sacred object on his way to the Holy Land *Rohmer, an Icelandic name meaning a guardian of a sacred place *Romeo, an Italian name meaning a pilgrim to Rome *Romeu, a Portuguese and Catalan name meaning someone on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land *Romeos, a Modern Greek name meaning pilgrim to Jerusalem *Romemu, a Hebraic word meaning one who exalts or glorifies a deity *Robero, a surname derived from the given name Robert In the genealogical record in the Philippines Romero is one of the surnames that were given by the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Salinas
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. These were later published under the title ''Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry.'' Biography He was born in Madrid in the Calle de Toledo, 1891, in a house very close to the San Isidro church/cathedral. Salinas lived his early years in the heart of the city and went to school first in the ''Colegio Hispano-Francés'' and then in the ''Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza'', both close by the church. His father, a cloth-merchant, died in 1899.Salinas Poesías completas Biographical summary He began to study Law at the Universidad central in 1908 and in 1910 started to study History concurrently. He graduated successfully in both courses in 1913. During his undergraduate years, he began to write and publish poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Villalón
Fernando Villalón Daoíz y Halcón, conde de Miraflores de los Ángeles (Morón de la Frontera, Seville, 31 May 1881 - Madrid, 8 March 1930) was a Spanish poet and bull breeder. Life He attended secondary school in El Puerto de Santa María, where he was a classmate of Juan Ramón Jiménez. He mostly lived in Andalucía and devoted himself to cattle-breeding and agriculture. He was also a compulsive but disorganised reader of cosmogenia, classic and modern poetry, bullfighting and spiritualism. His friends, members of the Generation of '27, especially Rafael Alberti, admired his enormous love of life and generosity. He funded and edited the ''Papel de Aleluyas'', printed in Huelva and Seville from 1927 to 1928. His poetry is imaginative and sometimes anticipated Surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to expr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidón (September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life. He taught in the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge before moving in 1947 to the US. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico. While he continued to write poetry, he also published wide-ranging books of critical essays, covering French, English and German as well as Spanish literature. He was frank about his homosexuality at a time when this was problematic and became something of a role model for this in Spain. His collected poems were published under the title ''La realidad y el deseo''. Biography Seville and early life Cernuda was born in the Barrio Santa Cruz, Calle Conde de Tójar 6 (now Acetres),Villena intro to edition of Las Nubes p 11 in Seville in 1902, the son of a colonel in the Regiment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Diego
Gerardo Diego Cendoya (October 3, 1896 – July 8, 1987) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. Diego taught language and literature at institutes of learning in Soria, Gijón, Santander and Madrid. He also acted as literary and music critic for several newspapers. Biography Diego was born in Santander. He studied the subjects of Philosophy & Humanities at the University of Deusto, and later at the universities of Salamanca and Madrid, where he earned his doctorate. With Juan Larrea, he founded the Ultraísta Movement in 1919. He was professor of literature and music. He began his poetic work with ''El romancero de la novia'' (1920). After discovering the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, founder of the Creationist movement, Diego became one of the most enthusiastic followers of Creacionismo. The extensive poetic work of Diego has always varied between the themes and expressions of Vanguardism and the more classical structures of poetry. In 1925, he was awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Bergamin
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch language, Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-British culture, Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Guillen
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form ''Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the ''Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and singer, Jorge & Mateus * Jorge (Romanian singer), real name George Papagheorghe, Romanian singer, actor, TV host * Jorge Betancourt, Cuban diver * Jorge Campos, Mexican football player * Jorge Cantú, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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