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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]
Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes was the usual moment shown in art, here by Gérard de Lairesse. Rather than allow her son Achilles to die at Troy as prophesied, the nymph Thetis sent him to live at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros, disguised as another daughter of the king or as a lady-in-waiting, under the name Pyrrha "the red-haired", Issa, or Kerkysera.
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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.
La Carreta (English: The Oxcart) is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. [2] The story follows a family of "jíbaros", or rural peasants, who in an effort to find better opportunities end up moving to the United States (see Puerto Rican migration to New York). [3] The story is divided in three acts, each focusing on a specific ...
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]
The Libro de Apolonio (Book of Apollonius) is an anonymous work of medieval Spanish literature written in Alexandrine quatrains around the middle of the thirteenth century in the learned genre of the Mester de clerecía. It is based on the medieval Latin Historia Apolonii Regis Tyrii. [1]
Madre de Deus (Mother of God; also called Mãe de Deus and Madre de Dios, referring to Mary) was a Portuguese ocean-going carrack, renowned for her capacious cargo and provisions for long voyages. She was returning from her second voyage East under Captain Fernão de Mendonça Furtado when she was captured by the English during the Battle of ...