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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Vega
Britannica 11thVEGA, GARCILASO DE LA (1503-1536), Spanish soldier and poet, was born at Toledo on the 6th of February 1503. His father, Garcilaso (Garcias Laso or Garcilasso) de la Vega, was counsellor of state to Ferdinand and Isabella, and for some time their ambassador at ...
Vol. 27, pp. 965-965
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Verga
Britannica 11thVERGA, GIOVANNI (1840- ), Italian novelist, was born at Catania, Sicily. In 1865 he published Storia di una peccalrice and / Carbonari della montagna, but his literary reputation was established by his Eva and Storia di una capinera (1869). Other novels follow
Vol. 27, pp. 1021-1021
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Astronomy
Britannica 11th... fixed by Professor Newcomb in 1808 at a point about 4° S. of the brilliant star Vega; but was shifted nearly 7° to the S.W. by J. C. Kapteyn's inquiry in 1901; so that the range of uncertainty as to its position continues unsatisfactorily wide. The speed with ...
Vol. 2, pp. 800-818
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Enriquez Gomez
Britannica 11th... tributed a sonnet to Montalban's collection of posthumous panegyrics on Lope de Vega, to whose dramatic school Enriquez Gomez belonged. The Academias morales de las Musas, consisting of four plays (including A lo que obliga el honor, which recalls Calderon's M ...
Vol. 9, pp. 652-652
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