The ''Coronica del Çid Ruy Diaz'', commonly called the ''Crónica popular del Cid'', is an anonymous
Spanish
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biography of
El Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and warlord in medieval Spain. Fighting with both Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific ''al-sīd'', which would evolve into El ...
published with
woodcut
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illustrations at
Seville
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in 1498. It provides a
novelesque account of the hero's life, drawn largely from chapters 38–104 of
Diego de Valera
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's ''Crónica de España abreviada'' of 1481, which itself relies on the ''
Crónica geral de Espanha de 1344 Crónica may refer to:
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'' for its coverage of the life of El Cid.
[Brian Powell, ''Epic and Chronicle: The ''Poema de Mio Cid'' and the ''Crónica de Veinte Reyes (Modern Humanities Research Association, 1983), p. 165 n47.][Fernando Gómez Redondo, "The Cidian Matter in the 15th Century", ''A Companion to the ''Poema de mio Cid (Brill, 2018), p. 489.] It went through at least fifteen editions by 1627, including a 1525 printing by
Jacobo
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Surname:
* Alfredo Jacobo (born 1982), Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Mexico
* Cesar Chave