Francisco Rico en Don Quijote de La Mancha (Almagro)

Francisco Rico Manrique (born 28 April 1942,

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) is a Spanish

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. He was a student of José Manuel Blecua and

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. He is a professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the

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and, since 1987, a member of the

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as well as the Académia das Ciéncias de Lisboa, the

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and the

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. Rico was elected to Seat p of the

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on 13 March 1986, he took up his seat on 4 June 1987. He has edited many classics from the medieval period and the "

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", and has written numerous studies on medieval and renaissance literature. He has also edited the ''Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española'' (Nine volumes, with supplements). He currently oversees the ''Classical Library'' series (started by Editorial Crítica and now a part of "Reader's Circle", a division of

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) following guidelines from the ''Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles'', which Rico began and helped to develop. In 1998, he was awarded the twelfth

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and, in 2004, the

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National Research Prize.

Selected works

* ''La novela picaresca y el punto de vista'', Seix Barral (1970). English translation, ''The Picaresque Novel and the Point of View'', Cambridge Univ. press, 1984. * ''Alfonso el Sabio y la "General Estoria"'', Ariel (1972) * ''Primera cuarentena y Tratado general de literatura'', El Festín de Esopo (1982) * ''Texto y contextos: Estudios sobre la poesía española del siglo XV'', Grijalba Mondadori (1991) * ''El sueño del humanismo'' Alianza (1993) * ''Figuras con paisaje'', Destino (1994) * ''Los discursos del gusto'', Destino (2003) * ''Tiempos del "Quijote"'', Acantilado (2012)

About Rico

References

External links

Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rico Manrique, Francisco Spanish literary critics Spanish philologists Members of the Royal Spanish Academy 1942 births Living people Autonomous University of Barcelona faculty Cervantists