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book of poems by Francisco Luis Bernárdez, 1925
Alcaeus of Messene, Greek poet of the second or third century BC, some of whose epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology
monastery in central Portugal founded in 1153, known for the tombs of Pedro the First and Inés de Castro
Portuguese nun, 1640-1723, known for her letters to a French officer, the Lettres portugaises, though these may have been written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne as an epistolary fiction
poem by Ricardo Güiraldes
the sacred book of Islam, revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad, also called Coran, Quran, Al Kitab, Koran
Argentine public official and writer, 1842-1902, author of Espinas de un amor, Tratado de derecho internacional, Instrucción secundaria and other works
Argentine writer, b. 1915 in Bayona, Spain, author of En la casa muerta, El hotel de la luna and other works
Alcuin or Albinus Flaccus, English scholar and ecclesiastic, 732-804, author of Versus de patribus, regibus et sanctis Eboracensis ecclesiae, De Fide Trinitatis and other works
Argentine caudillo and priest, 1785-1845, subject of a biography by Sarmiento
early Borges poem
book of poems by Baldomero Fernández Moreno, 1925
Aldebaran, the constellation
Fishburn and Hughes: "A name of Teutonic origin translated into Italian as Aldighiero (later Alighiero). Dante's great-great-grandfather, the warrior Cacciaguida, had married a woman from the Aldighieri family, as he explains to the poet in the Divine Comedy: 'My wife came from the vale of Po; / whence was derived the surname thou dost bear' (Paradiso, Canto XV, 137/8)." (6)
English writer, 1892-1962
Italian naturalist, 1522-1605
Francisco Luis Bernárdez poem
poem by Ildefonso Pereda Valdés
Peruvian novelist, 1909-67
Alexandria, port city in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great.
Fishburn and Hughes: "The principal port of Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 332/1 BC. The Immortal : refers to the war of the Romans against Egypt whose capital Alexandria became. In 30 BC Octavian (later Augustus) overthrew the last of the Ptolemies. The city and the rest of the country fell under Roman rule, and many rebellions were put down. Three Versions of Judas: by the second century AD Alexandria had become a focus of Hellenistic and Jewish learning. Heretical doctrines, such as those of the Gnostics and of Origen spread within its walls. Averroës’ Search: the assertion that 'the only persons incapable of a sin are those who have already committed it and repented; to be free of an error.. .it is well to have professed it' is an allusion to Carpocrates' interpretation of the Gnostics' libertarian attitude to sinning as a positive obligation to perform every kind of immoral act in order to curb the power of nature. For Carpocrates sinning was part of a programme that had to be completed, making amoralism the means by which freedom could be attained and making sin the way to salvation." (7)
