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See also:MANUEL JOSE See also:QUINTANA (1772-1857)
, See also:Spanish poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 1th of See also:April 1772, and after completing his studies at See also:Salamanca was called to the See also:bar
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In 18oi he produced a tragedy, El Duque de Viseo, founded on M
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See also:Lewis's See also:Castle Spectre; his Pelayo (18o5), written on a patriotic theme, was more successful
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The first See also:volume of his Vidas de Espanoles celebres (1807-33), containing lives of Spanish patriots, stirred the public See also:imagination and secured See also:Quintana the See also:post of secretary to the See also:Cortes during the See also:French invasion
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His proclamations and odes fanned the See also:national See also:enthusiasm into See also:flame
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But he was See also:ill rewarded for his services, for on the return of See also: Pifieyro, See also:Manuel Jose Quintana, ensayo critico y biogrdfico (See also:Paris, 1892) . |
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