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María Remedios del Valle was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was listed in her military records as a parda, a term formerly applied to triracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and West African slaves, that later became applied to people of mostly or entirely African descent. [2]
A page from El Libro de los Epítomes with corrections and marginal notes. The Libro de los Epítomes (The Book of Epitomes) is a catalogue summarising part of the library of around 15–20,000 books which Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando Colón) assembled in the early sixteenth-century in an effort to create a library of every book in the world.
Coat of arms of Maria Mercedes of Bourbon, Countess of Barcelona as consort of the Pretender to the Spanish Throne. Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Spanish: [maˈɾi.a meɾˈθeðes]; María de las Mercedes Cristina Genara Isabel Luisa Carolina Victoria y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Orléans; 23 December 1910 – 2 January 2000) was a member of the Spanish royal ...
Achilles Statius (or Aquiles Estaço) (12 June 1524, Vidigueira – 17 September 1581) was a Portuguese humanist and writer, since 1555 living in Rome, where he was a secretary of the pope. [1] Achilles Statius is now mostly known from his extensive Latin commentary to Catullus , published in 1566.
On 30 March 1968 four school girls, aged 12 and 13 years old — Ana García, Rafaela Gordo, Josefa Guzmán and Ana Aguilera —, [1] from El Palmar de Troya reported having seen the apparition of "a very beautiful lady" on a bush (lentisco) near the Alcaparrosa field, just outside of the town in Spanish Andalusia, while they were picking flowers.
Santos Vega was a mythical Argentine gaucho, and invincible [citation needed] payador (a kind of minstrel that competed in singing competitions resembling dialectic discussions), who was only defeated by the Devil himself, [citation needed] disguised as the payador Juan sin Ropa ("John Clothless").
Luis de Mena was a Mexican artist who lived and worked predominantly in the middle of the eighteenth century. Mena painted religious works and has been described as "no more than a journeyman painter in 18th century Mexico."
Jerónima was born in Toledo, Spain to Pedro García e Yánez and Catalina de la Fuente of Toledo, who were pious, prosperous and of the lower nobility. [3] Jerónima spent her childhood in Toledo, where she learned the basics of Christian life very early on. She grew up on the Calle de lod Letrados, next to the Church of San Marcos. [4]