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It was later included in El Aleph under the title "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos". It deals with a number of Borgesian themes: labyrinths, supposed obscure folk tales, Arabia, and Islam. [2] The story is itself referenced in-universe by characters of Borges' "Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari—Dead in His Labyrinth", also found in The Aleph. [3]
Antonio de los Reyes Correa (c. 1665 – June 9, 1758), also known as El Capitán Correa, was a Puerto Rican native who served as a captain in the Spanish Marine Infantry. Correa and his men defended the town of Arecibo from an English invasion in 1702.
Earning his freedom, Guerrero became a respected warrior under a Maya lord and raised three of the first mestizo children in Mexico and one of the first mestizo children in the Americas, alongside Miguel Díez de Aux and the children of Caramuru and João Ramalho in Brazil. Little is known of his early life.
Juan de Ulibarrí or Uribarrí (1670-1716) was a Spanish or Criollo soldier and explorer who lived in New Mexico.In 1706 he led an expedition to El Cuartelejo on the Great Plains of western Kansas and eastern Colorado.
Jose Estella was born in Escolta, Manila in 1870 [3] to Spaniard Don José María Agustín Ricardo Estella y Cazorla from Andalusia, Spain and Doña María del Socorro Josefa Antonia Barredo y González from Quiapo, Manila. [4] After studying and graduating from the Madrid Conservatory, he returned to the Philippines and pursued a career in music.
The Chronica latina regum Castellae, known in Spanish as the Crónica latina de los reyes de Castilla, both meaning "Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile", is a medieval Latin history of the rulers of Castile from the death of Count Fernán González in 970 to the reconquest of Córdoba by King Ferdinand III in 1236–39.
The Semblanzas de reyes (lit. ' Likenesses of Kings ' ), known in full as the Compendio de crónicas de los reyes del Antiguo Testamento, gentiles, cónsules y emperadores romanos, reyes godos y de los reinos de Castilla, Aragón, Navarra y Portugal , is an illuminated Old Castilian collection of biographies of rulers compiled around 1315/1320 ...
After a long journey over land, de los Reyes arrived in his new see of Arizpe on September 22, 1783, [1]: 80 bearing a royal charter which declared the small town a city. [1]: 67 After less than a month, de los Reyes petitioned for his see to be transferred to Álamos, [1]: 81 where he took up residence towards the end of the year.