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  2. Costumbrismo - Wikipedia

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    Some of the work of Goya can be seen as prefiguring costumbrismo, especially as practiced in Madrid.Here, the Fight with Cudgels, one of Goya's Black Paintings.. Antecedents to costumbrismo can be found as early as the 17th century (for example in the work of playwright Juan de Zabaleta) and the current becomes clearer in the 18th century (Diego de Torres Villarroel, José Clavijo y Fajardo ...

  3. Literary costumbrismo - Wikipedia

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    Larra establishes the origin of the modern literature of customs in England since Addison [5] ’s The Spectator.. Another view of the costumbrismo was the new possibility of travelling, a romantic passion that created the literary descriptive model of the libros de viajes (literally, books of traveling), usually more focused on the pictures and hackneyed things and simple impressions or ...

  4. Il Galateo - Wikipedia

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    It was translated into French (1562), English (1576), Latin (1580), Spanish (1585), and German (1587), and has been read and studied in every generation. [2] Della Casa's work set the foundation for modern etiquette writers and authorities on manners, such as “Miss Manners” Judith Martin, Amy Vanderbilt, and Emily Post. [3]

  5. Royal Household and Heritage of the Crown of Spain - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Household and Heritage of the Crown of Spain (Spanish: Real Casa y Patrimonio de la Corona de España) was the institution of the Monarchy of Spain.It governed the organization of the Royal Spanish Court from the time of the Habsburg dynasty, which introduced the so-called Burgundian etiquette, up to the reign of King Alfonso XIII, great-grandfather of the current King Felipe VI, in ...

  6. Etiquette - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-18th century, the first, modern English usage of etiquette (the conventional rules of personal behaviour in polite society) was by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), [9] a correspondence of more than 400 letters written from 1737 ...

  7. Culture of the Basque Country - Wikipedia

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    Literature in the Basque Country may refer to the literature made in Basque, Spanish, and French. Basque, historically the primary language of the territory at either side of current French-Spanish border, was not prone to be written until the early Modern Period, aside some short poems (Beotibarko gudua), letters (between Navarrese high-ranking officials in the early 15th century), loose ...

  8. Spanish practices - Wikipedia

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    Main types of "Spanish practices" include allowing workers to go home before the end of their shift if they have completed their scheduled work; negotiable paid overtime within normal working hours after completing scheduled work, regardless of remaining working hours; automatic overtime pay if production reaches a certain level regardless of ...

  9. Hispanic - Wikipedia

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    Hispanic culture is a set of customs, traditions, beliefs, and art forms in music, literature, dress, architecture, cuisine, and other cultural fields that are generally shared by peoples in Hispanic regions, but which can vary considerably from one country or territory to another.