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Urvashi (Sanskrit: उर्वशी, IAST: Urvaśī) is the most prominent apsara mentioned in the Hindu scriptures like the Vedas, the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as the Puranas. She is regarded as the most beautiful of all the apsaras, and an expert dancer. Urvashi has been featured in many mythological events.
From 1480, there were printers active in Spain [1] The Spanish literary works of greatest prominence were published or translated in Italy, the center of early printing. [2] This was the case with Amadís de Gaula , The Celestina , Jail of Love , the poetic compositions of Jorge Manrique , Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana ...
The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).
Apsaras on Hindu Temple at Banares, 1913. The origin of 'apsara' is the Sanskrit अप्सरस्, apsaras (in the stem form, which is the dictionary form). Note that the stem-form ends in 's' as distinct from, e.g. the nominative singular Rāmas / Rāmaḥ (the deity Ram in Hindi), whose stem form is Rāma.
The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. [ 1 ] This new focus in art , literature , quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity , received a major impulse from several ...
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .
Spanish Modernist literature is the literature of Spain written during Modernism (beginning of the 20th century) as the arts evolved and opposed the previous Realism. Parnasianism and Symbolism [ edit ]
Conceptismo (literally, conceptism) is a literary movement of the Baroque period in the Spanish literature. It began in the late 16th century and lasted through the 17th century, also the period of the Spanish Golden Age. Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, the most significant representative of Baroque conceptismo Baltasar Gracián