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He was later transferred to the Friary of San Diego del Monte (now a chapel), outside the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Although he was not a priest , Hernández helped spiritually with his advice many of the people who visited the friary, as well as another noted mystic in the city, the Dominican nun , Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado ...
The two previous ones bore the names Santa Lucia and San Luis Rey de Francia and were headed by Alberto del Canto, the future arch-enemy of Montemayor, and the second by Luis de Carabajal y Cueva. Montemayor brought forty people with him from Saltillo to populate Monterrey; nine married couples, three men without families, fourteen boys, four ...
Francisco Pobeda y Armenteros was a poet who can be placed midway between "high culture" and "popular culture" and whose style was one of the first to initiate the process of "Cubanization" in poetry. Soon afterward, Domingo del Monte attempted to do the same, proposing the "Cubanization" of romance.
Luis de Guzmán Ponce de Leon was the second son of Luis Ponce de León y de Zúñiga (1573-1605), VI Marquis of Zahara, and his wife Victoria Álvarez de Toledo y Colonna, daughter of Viceroy Pedro de Toledo Osorio, 5th Marquess of Villafranca. His elder brother was Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos [1].
Luis de León was born in Belmonte, in the Province of Cuenca, in 1527 or 1528. [3] His parents were Lope de León and Inés de Varela, and they had five children. [4] His father practiced law, and it was due to his profession that the family moved to Madrid in 1534, and later to Valladolid.
Juan de Grijalva. Juan de Grijalva (Spanish: [xwan de ɣɾiˈxalβa]; c. 1490 – 21 January 1527) was a Spanish conquistador, and a relative of Diego Velázquez. [1]: 27 He went to Hispaniola in 1508 and to Cuba in 1511. He was one of the early explorers of the Mexican coastline, and was killed by natives in Honduras on 21 January 1527.
With Bodega y Quadra on the Princesa was second officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle, surgeon Mariano Nunez Esquivel, pilot Jose Canizares, and second pilot Juan Bautista Aguirre. [6] The expedition's objective was to evaluate the Russian penetration of Alaska, search for a Northwest Passage, and capture James Cook if they found him in Spanish ...
The first page of the Huei Tlamahuiçoltica. Huei Tlamahuiçoltica ("The Great Event") [1] is a tract in Nahuatl comprising 36 pages and was published in Mexico City, Mexico in 1649 by Luis Laso de la Vega, the vicar of the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac outside the same city.