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Juan Flores (baseball)
Juan Flores may refer to: Academics * Juan de Flores (c. 1455–c. 1525), Spanish courtier, diplomat and author * Juan Flores (professor) (1943–2014), American professor of social and cultural analysis Politics * Juan José Flores (1800–1864), Venezuelan president and military general * Juan Alcocer Flores (born 1955), Mexican politician * Juan Gerardo Flores Ramírez (born 1968), Mexican politician Sportspeople * Juan Flores (1930s footballer), Peruvian football forward * Juan Flores (wrestler) (born 1940), Mexican Olympic wrestler * Juan Flores (footballer, born 1964), Honduran football forward * Juan Flores (footballer, born 1976), Peruvian goalkeeper * Juan Flores (footballer, born 1993), Mexican football winger * Juan Flores (American soccer) (born 1997), American soccer forward Other * Juan Flores (outlaw) (c. 1834–1857), Californio bandit * Juan Carlos Flores (1962–2016), Cuban poet {{hndis, Flores, Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan De Flores
Juan de Flores (c. 1455 - c. 1525) was a Spanish courtier, knight, administrator, diplomat and author, most known for two "sentimental novels": ''Grimalte y Gradissa'' and ''Grisel y Mirabella'', both probably written between 1470 and 1477 and published around 1495. Until recently, little was known of his life. Representative of a class of late medieval "humanist knights", he was associated with the court of García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba and may have been the nephew of the noble Pedro Alvarez Osorio. In 1476, he was appointed official chronicler to the monarchs Fernando and Isabella; among his other political activities, he may have participated in the civil war of the 1470s and in Grenada. He was "one of the most widely read Spanish authors in Europe", unmatched until Miguel de Cervantes started writing 60 years after de Flores died, and the European popularity of his ''Grisel y Mirabella'' (which had at least 56 editions in several languages before Cervantes was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |