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Saint Isidore Cemetery
Saint Isidore Cemetery is a monumental cemetery in the Spanish capital Madrid. Its first courtyard was erected in 1811 and new expansions were added throughout the 19th Century. Its central courtyard, called “Patio de la Concepción” (Conception courtyard) boasts a notable group of mausolea. This cemetery is the resting place of many famous Spaniards, such as artists, politicians or poets. History The cemetery is located on the upper right side of the Manzanares river, between the Segovia and Toledo bridges. Its full name, “Pontifical and Royal Sacramental Arch-confraternity of St Peter, St Andrew, St Isidore and of the Immaculate Conception” reveals its origins: the arch-confraternity resulted from the 1587 merger of the confraternities of the parishes of St Peter the Royal, St Andrew the apostle, the Immaculate Conception and St Isidore the Labourer. All these fraternities included among their duties the dignified burial of deceased members, for which purpose a reques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monumental Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keats (writer)
John C. Keats (1921 – November 3, 2000) was an American writer and biographer. Biography Keats was born in Moultrie, Georgia. He attended the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania before serving in the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II. Keats worked for the ''Washington Daily News'' in the 1950s. His debut as an author came in 1956 with '' The Crack in the Picture Window'', a broadside at sprawling suburban housing developments. He also wrote numerous magazine articles, which led to non-fiction books and biographies. In the 1950s, Keats bought "Pine Island", one of the Thousand Islands, as a vacation home for himself, his wife and their three children. However, at the time of his death in 2000, he was living in Kingston, Ontario, where he had moved in order to be close to the island featured in his 1974 book ''Of Time and an Island''. From 1974 to 1990 Keats taught magazine writing at Syracuse University. Keats died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón De Mesonero Romanos
Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (19 July 1803 – 30 April 1882) was a Spanish prose writer who was born in Madrid. Biography At an early age, he became interested in the history and topography of his native city. His ''Guía de Madrid'' (1831) was published when literature was at a low ebb in Spain, but the author's curious researches and direct style charmed the public. Next year, in a review entitled ''Cartas españolas'', under the pseudonym "El Curioso Parlante", he began a series of articles on the social life of the capital, which were subsequently collected and called ''Panorama matritense'' (1835–1836). Mesonero Romanos was elected to the Spanish Academy in 1838 and, though he continued to write, had somewhat outlived his fame when he issued his pleasing autobiography, ''Memorias de un Setentón, natural y vecino de Madrid'' (1880). He died in Madrid, shortly after the publication of his ''Obras completas'' (8 vols, 410, 1881). His place of burial is the Saint Isidore Cemete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Javier De Istúriz
Francisco Javier de Istúriz y Montero (31 October 1790 in Cádiz – 2 April 1871 in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Spain. He also served as the President of the Senate and President of the Congress of Deputies The president of the Congress of Deputies ( es, Presidente del Congreso de los Diputados) is the speaker of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales (the Spanish parliament). The president is elected among the members o ... several times. Footnotes , - , - , - , - , - , - Prime Ministers of Spain 1790 births 1871 deaths Presidents of the Congress of Deputies (Spain) Moderate Party (Spain) politicians 19th-century Spanish politicians Ambassadors of Spain to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Presidents of the Senate of Spain {{spain-diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego De León, 1st Count Of Belascoáin
Don Diego de León y Navarrete (1807 in Córdoba – October 15, 1841 in Madrid) was a Spanish military figure. As a young man he joined the Spanish army as a cavalryman, and was promoted to the rank of captain at the age of 17. He fought in the southern front during the First Carlist War on the side of the Liberals (Christinos), and made himself famous for marching at the head of his lancers and riding at the spot where the enemy was most numerous. At Arcos de la Frontera, in charge of a squadron of 70 horsemen, he managed to detain a Carlist column until Liberal reinforcements arrived. He was awarded the Cross of Saint Ferdinand as a result (''Cruz Laureada de San Fernando''). On the northern front, he fought at the Battle of Mendigorría and later captured Belascoáin from the Carlists in 1838, thereby earning his noble title. In 1840, he was named Captain-General of New Castile. He was a member of the Moderate Party (''Partido Moderado''), and with the fall of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel De Saavedra, 3rd Duke Of Rivas
Don Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, 3rd Duke of Rivas ( es, Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, Duque de Rivas; 10 March 179122 June 1865) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and politician born in Córdoba. He is best known for his play ''Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino'' (''Don Álvaro, or the Force of Fate'') (1835), the first romantic success in the Spanish theater. Career De Saavedra fought in the war of independence and was also a prominent member of the advanced Liberal party from 1820 to 1823. In 1823, Rivas was condemned to death for his liberal views and fled to England. He lived successively in Italy, Malta and France, until the death of Ferdinand VII in 1833 and the amnesty of 1834, when he returned to Spain, shortly afterwards succeeding his brother as duke of Rivas. In 1835 he became minister of the interior under Isturiz, and along with his chief had again to leave the country. Returning in 1837, he joined the moderate party, became prime mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Manuel Rui-Gómez, 5th Marquess Of San Isidro
Francisco Manuel Rui-Gómez y Dañobeitia, 5th Marquess of San Isidro, OM (28 September 18045 August 1885) was a Spanish peer, army officer, politician and intellectual who fought for the Liberals in the Carlist Wars and later served as Senator for the Province of León as well as Senator for life in 1864. Early life Born ''Francisco Manuel María Wenceslao'' in A Coruña, into one of the most influential noble houses of León. His father, Francisco de Paula Rui-Gómez y de Prado, 4th Marquess of San Isidro, was posted there as field marshal of the Royal Spanish Armies at the time he was born. His ancestor, Pablo Rui-Gómez Lasso de la Vega y Balmaseda, had been granted the title of Marquess of San Isidro in 1730 by the king Philip V, in recognition to his patronage of the Basílica of San Isidoro in León. Military career Political career Marriage and issue Rui-Gómez married María del Carmen de Riobóo y Roldán, Countess of Taboada (d. 1839). They had one chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro Fernández De Moratín
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (; 10 March 1760 – 21 June 1828) was a Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet. Biography Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1828. Distrusting the teaching offered in Spain's universities at the time, Leandro grew up in the rich literary environment of his father and became an admirer of Enlightenment thought. In addition to translating works of Molière and William Shakespeare into Spanish, he himself was a major poet, dramatist and man of letters whose writings promoted the reformist ideas associated with the Spanish Enlightenment. Early in his career, he was supported by statesman and author Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who, in 1787, arranged for him to study for a year in Paris. In 1792, the Spanish government provided the funds for him to travel to England in order to extend his education. In 1790 he published his first co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Restoration (Spain)
The Restoration ( es, link=no, Restauración), or Bourbon Restoration (Spanish: ''Restauración borbónica''), is the name given to the period that began on 29 December 1874—after a coup d'état by General Arsenio Martínez Campos ended the First Spanish Republic and restored the monarchy under Alfonso XII—and ended on 14 April 1931 with the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. After almost a century of political instability and many civil wars, the aim of the Restoration was to create a new political system, which ensured stability by the practice of '' turnismo''. This was the deliberate rotation of the Liberal and Conservative parties in the government, often achieved through electoral fraud. Opposition to the system came from Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists, Basque and Catalan nationalists, and Carlists. Alfonso XII and the Regency of Maria Christina (1874–1898) The '' pronunciamiento'' by Martínez Campos established Alfonso XII as king, marking the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
