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Torquemada may refer to: People * Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer * Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition * Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer * Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World * Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Fiction * Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series ''Oz'' * Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the ''Monkey Island'' series * '' Las novelas de Torquemada'', four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós: **'' Torquemada en la hoguera'' (1889) **'' Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893) **'' Torquemada en el purgatorio'' (1894) **'' Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895) * ''Torquemada'' (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada * Torquemada (comic ...
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Fray Juan De Torquemada
Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, active as missionary in colonial Mexico and considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of his generation." Administrator, engineer, architect and ethnographer, he is most famous for his monumental work commonly known as ("Indian Monarchy"), a survey of the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of New Spain together with an account of their conversion to Christianity, first published in Spain in 1615 and republished in 1723. was the "prime text of Mexican history, and was destined to influence all subsequent chronicles until the twentieth century." It was used by later historians, the Franciscan Augustin de Vetancurt and most importantly by 18th-century Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero. No English translation of this work has ever been published. Life Early years There are few firm biographical details concerning Juan de Torquemada, most of which have to be deduced from his own work. Even basic ...
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Juan De Torquemada (cardinal)
Juan de Torquemada, O.P. (1388 – 26 September 1468), (church Latin Johannes de Turre cremata, various spellings), Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth century. He was an uncle of Tomás de Torquemada, afterwards notorious as the persecuting Grand Inquisitor. Life Juan de Torquemada was born in Valladolid, Spain. “There is a general historical consensus that the family were former Jews“. Though those converso origins are very often stated without providing any source, they are “based primarily on Hernando del Pulgar’s statement that Juan de Torquemada’s ''abuelos'' were converts from the Jewish faith“. As a ''converso'', Pulgar is considered to have made this assertion out of hate for Juan de Torquemada’s nephew, Tomás de Torquemada. However, through a study of all Juan de Torquemada’s ancestors no such jewish converts were found in his family. At an early age he joined th ...
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Tomás De Torquemada
Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office (otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition). The Spanish Inquisition was a group of ecclesiastical prelates that was created in 1478, and which was charged with the somewhat ill-defined task of "upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy" within the lands of the newly formed union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon. The lands of this newly formed royal union are now known as the Kingdom of Spain. Mainly because of persecution, Muslims and Jews in Castile and Aragon at that time found it socially, politically, and economically expedient to convert to Catholicism (see '' Converso'', Morisco, and Marrano). The existence of superficial converts from Judaism (i.e., Crypto-Jews) was perceived by the Catholic Monarchs as a threat to the religious and social life in their realms. This led Tor ...
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish Spanish Realist literature, realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. Pérez Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 ''Episodios Nacionales'' (''National Episodes''), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and is considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Some of his works have been translated into English, as he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world. While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, ''Realidad'' (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. The Pérez Galdós museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria features a portrait of the writer by Joaquín Sorolla. He came to be nominated for the No ...
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Torquemada (comics)
Tomás de Torquemada is the fictional main villain in the comic strip ''Nemesis the Warlock'', published in the British comic anthology ''2000 AD (comic), 2000 AD''. He eventually appeared in 7 episodes of spin-off adventures of his own. He is named after and inspired by the real life Tomás de Torquemada. Fictional character biography Originally the leader of The Tube Police, a fascist police force and quasi-religious order in the far future, he became the dictator of the entire human race from its base on Termight (planet Earth). His Empire wages a Speciesism#In fiction, speciesist war against all alien species, whom Torquemada regards as "impure." Torquemada's goal is to keep the human race united by their fear and Anthropocentrism#In fiction, hatred of all aliens. He is described as being totally evil and having absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. In fact, late in the series, it was revealed (through the actions of Thoth, son of Nemesis the Warlock) that his previo ...
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Torquemada Y San Pedro
Torquemada may refer to: People * Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer * Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition * Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer * Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World * Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Fiction * Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series ''Oz'' * Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the ''Monkey Island'' series * '' Las novelas de Torquemada'', four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós: **'' Torquemada en la hoguera'' (1889) **'' Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893) **'' Torquemada en el purgatorio'' (1894) **'' Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895) * ''Torquemada'' (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada * Torquemada (comic ...
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Torquemada En El Purgatorio
Torquemada may refer to: People * Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer * Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition * Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer * Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World * Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Fiction * Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series ''Oz'' * Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the ''Monkey Island'' series * '' Las novelas de Torquemada'', four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós: **'' Torquemada en la hoguera'' (1889) **'' Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893) **'' Torquemada en el purgatorio'' (1894) **''Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895) * ''Torquemada'' (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada * Torquemada (comics ...
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Torquemada En La Hoguera
Torquemada may refer to: People * Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer * Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition * Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer * Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World * Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Fiction * Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series ''Oz'' * Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the ''Monkey Island'' series * '' Las novelas de Torquemada'', four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós: **'' Torquemada en la hoguera'' (1889) **'' Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893) **''Torquemada en el purgatorio'' (1894) **''Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895) * ''Torquemada'' (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada * Torquemada (comics) ...
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Torquemada En La Cruz
Torquemada may refer to: People * Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer * Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition * Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer * Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World * Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Fiction * Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series ''Oz'' * Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the ''Monkey Island'' series * '' Las novelas de Torquemada'', four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós: **''Torquemada en la hoguera'' (1889) **'' Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893) **''Torquemada en el purgatorio'' (1894) **''Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895) * ''Torquemada'' (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada * Torquemada (comics), ...
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L'heure Espagnole
''L'heure espagnole'' is a French one-act opera from 1911, described as a ''comédie musicale'', with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 1904 play ('comédie-bouffe') of the same nameStoullig E. ''Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 30eme edition, 1904.'' Librairie Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1905.Roland-Manuel, p. 52: When Franc-Nohain heard Ravel play the work through to him for the first time, he apparently looked at his watch and said to Ravel "56 minutes". The opera, set in Spain in the 18th century, is about a clockmaker whose unfaithful wife attempts to make love to several different men while he is away, leading to them hiding in, and eventually getting stuck in, her husband's clocks. The title can be translated literally as "The Spanish Hour", but the word "heure" more importantly means "time" – "Spanish Time", with the connotation "How They Keep Time in Spain". The original play had first been performed at the Théâ ...
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Torquemada, Palencia
Torquemada is a municipality in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 1098 inhabitants. It is the namesake and believed to be the birthplace of famed Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada. The village is known for its peppers, an important crop for the local economy. Etymology The village name came from a Spanish corruption of the Latin ''turris cremata'' "burnt tower". Curiosities and historical data The Infanta Catalina was born here on January 14, 1507. She was the daughter of Queen Juana of Castile and Felipe of Habsburg. After Felipe's death, his remains rested here for a period of 3 months. In this village is the home of the writer José Zorrilla y Moral, author of " Don Juan Tenorio", traditionally performed every year on All Saints Day All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallow ...
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Antonio De Torquemada
''For other people with this surname, see Torquemada'' Antonio de Torquemada (circa 1507, León, Spain - 1569), was a Spanish writer of the Renaissance.Coordinators: Alonso, Juan / Matas, Juan Caballero / Trabado, José (2005) ''La maravilla escrita, Antonio de Torquemada y el Siglo de Oro''. . Universidad de León, Servicio de Publicaciones. He studied humanities in Salamanca. Between 1528 and 1530 he lived in Italy and he was secretary of the Count of Benavente. He composed popular works that were translated in France, Italy and England. His ''Satirical Colloquies'' are developed in a pastoral frame, that is an advance to the pastoral literature. Two of his famous works, ''Don Olivante de Laura'' and '' Garden of Peculiar flowers'' were mentioned by Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 Old Style and New Style dates, NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish l ...
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