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San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1931) is a short novel by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). It experiments with changes of narrator as well as minimalism of action and of description, and as such has been described as a nivola , a literary genre invented by Unamuno to describe his work.
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, the Younger, who provided a substantial increase in the wealth of the Portuguese crown, wasted with the discovery of the mines all of the fortune that would have been inherited from his parents, and passed away poor in Vila de Goiás in 1740, truly because the promise of conceding the crown an arroba (~14.7kg) of gold ...
He was abandoned as a baby at the door of the surgeon-major José Antônio Pimenta Bueno and his wife Mariana Benedita de Faria e Albuquerque, who adopted him. His natural parents are unknown. [2] [3] He was married to Balbina Henriqueta de Faria e Albuquerque. [4]
Manuel de Jesús Galván was born in 1834 in the city of Santo Domingo, at a time when the whole island of Hispaniola was under the control of the Republic of Haiti.In 1844, when he was 10, the Spanish-speaking part of the island rose up and declared its independence under the name of the Dominican Republic, remaining at war with Haiti for many years. [2]
Los Caprichos lack an organized and coherent structure, but they have important thematic nuclei. The most prevalent themes are: the superstition around witches, which predominates after Capricho No. 43 and that serves to express ideas about evil in a tragicomic way; the life and behavior of friars; erotic satire relating to prostitution and the role of the matchmaker; and to a lesser extent ...
Eric Vetro is proud of Sabrina Carpenter's journey.. The 68-year-old vocal coach, whose clients include Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes, has worked with the "Espresso" singer, 25, since she was 12 ...
Río Bueno is thus a hybrid word with huenu being replaced by phono-semantic matching with the Spanish word bueno "good". [5] A more recent translation of the indigenous name puts it as "Celestial River". [6] In 1654, the Bueno River was the site of the battle of Río Bueno between a Spanish slave-hunting expedition and local Mapuche-Huilliches ...
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