PEDRO See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

ANTONIO DE See also:

• ALARCON, HERNANDO DE
• ALARCON, JUAN RUIZ DE (1518 ?-1639)
• PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCON (1833-1891)

ALARCON (1833-1891)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1833 at See also:

• GUADIX

Guadix . He graduated at the university of See also:

• GRANADA
• GRANADA, LUIS DE (1504-1588)

Granada, studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology privately, and made his first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance as a dramatist before he was of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . Deciding to follow literature as a profession, he joined with Torcuato Thrrago y Mateos in editing a See also:

• CADIZ
• CADIZ (Cadiz)
• CADIZ (in Lat. Gades, and formerly called Cales by the English)

Cadiz See also:

• NEWS

news-See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper entitled El Eco de Occidente . In 1853 he travelled to See also:

• MADRID

Madrid in the See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

hope of finding a publisher for his continuation of See also:

• ESPRONCEDA, JOSE IGNACIO JAVIER ORIOL ENCARNACION DE (1808-1842)

Espronceda's celebrated poem, El Diablo Mundo . Disappointed in his See also:

• OBJECT

object, and finding no opening at the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, he settled at Granada, became a See also:

• RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

radical journalist in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, and showed so much ability that in 1854 he was appointed editor of a republican See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal, El Ldtigo, published at Madrid . The extreme violence of his polemics led to a See also:

• DUEL (Ital. duello, Lat. duellum—old form of bellum-from duo, two)

duel between him and the Byronic poet, Jose Heriberto See also:

• GARCIA
• GARCIA (DEL POPOLO VICENTO), MANOEL (1775-1832)

Garcia Quevedo . The earliest of his novels, El Final de Norma, was published in 1855, and though its construction is feeble it brought the writer into See also:

• NOTICE

notice as a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of elegant See also:

• PROSE

prose . A small See also:

• ANTHOLOGY

anthology, called Mananas de Abril y See also:

• MAYO
• MAYO, RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, 6TH EARL OF (1822-1872)

Mayo (1856), proves that See also:

• ALARCON, HERNANDO DE
• ALARCON, JUAN RUIZ DE (1518 ?-1639)
• ALARCON, PEDRO ANTONIO DE (1833-1891)

Alarcon was re-cognized as a See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader by See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young men of promise, for among the contributors were Castelar, See also:

• MANUEL, EUGENE (1823–1901)
• MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE (1775-1827)
• MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

Manuel del Palacio and See also:

• LOPEZ, CARLOS ANTONIO (1790-1862)

Lopez de See also:

• AYALA, DON PEDRO LOPEZ DE (1332–1407)

Ayala . A dramatic piece, El Hijo prodigo, was hissed off the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage in 1857, and the failure so stung Alarcon that he enlisted under O'Donnell's command as a volunteer for the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war in See also:

• MOROCCO

Morocco . His Diario de un testigo de la guerra de See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa (1859) is a brilliant See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the expedition . The first edition, amounting to fifty thousand copies, was sold within a fortnight, and Alarcon's name became famous throughout the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula . The See also:

• BOOK

book is not in any sense a formal See also:

• HISTORY

history; it is a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of picturesque impressions rendered with remarkable force .

On his return from Africa Alarcon did the Liberal party much See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good service as editor of La Politica, but after his See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage in 1866 to a devout See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady, Paulina Contrera y Reyes, he modified his See also:

• POLITICAL

political views considerably . On the overthrow of the See also:

• MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

monarchy in 1868, Alarcon advocated the claims of the duc de See also:

• MONTPENSIER, ANNE MARIE LOUISE
• MONTPENSIER, COUNTS AND DUKES OF

Montpensier, was neutral during the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic, and declared himself a Conservative upon the restoration of the See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1874 . These political See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations alienated Alarcbn's old See also:

• ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies and failed to conciliate the royalists . But though his political See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence was ruined, his success as a writer was greater than ever . The publication in the Revista Europea (1874) of a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, El See also:

• SOMBRERO

Sombrero de tres picos, a most ingenious resetting of an old popular See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale, made him almost as well known out of See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain as in it . This remarkable See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph in the picturesque vein encouraged him to produce other See also:

• WORKS

works of the same See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind; yet though his Cuentos amatorios (1881), his Historietas nacionales (1881) and his Narraciones inverosimiles (1882) are pleasing, they have not the delightful gaiety and See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of. their predecessor . In a longer novel, El Escdndalo (1875), Alarcon had appeared as a See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan of the neo-See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic reaction, and this See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion brought upon him many attacks, mostly unjust . His usual See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune followed him, for while the Radicals denounced him as an apostate, the neo-Catholics alleged that El Esc4ndalo was tainted with See also:

• JANSENISM

Jansenism . Of his later volumes, written in failing See also:

• HEALTH

health and See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits, it is only necessary to mention El Capitan Veneno and the Historia de mis libros, both issued in 1881 . Alarcon was elected a member of the Spanish See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy in 1875 . He died at Madrid on the 2oth of See also:

• JULY

July 1891 . His later novels and tales are disfigured by their didactic tendency, by feeble See also:

• DRAWING

drawing of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, and even by certain gallicisms of See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style .

But, at his best, Alarcon may be read with See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure . The Diario de un testigo is still unsurpassed as a picture of campaigning See also:

• LIFE

life, while El Sombrero de tres picos is a very perfect example of malicious wit and See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute observation . (J .