chivalric romances
31Spanish Golden Age — This article is about the Spanish Golden Age of the 15th 17th centuries. : For the earlier Golden Age of Islamic culture and Jewish culture in Spain, see Al Andalus. The Spanish Golden Age (in Spanish, Siglo de Oro) was a period of flourishing in …
32The Knight of the Burning Pestle — is a play by Francis Beaumont, first performed in 1607 and first published in a quarto in 1613. It is notable as the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don Quixote …
33Pietro Cerone — (1566 ndash;1625) was an Italian music theorist, singer and priest of the late Renaissance. He is most famous for an enormous music treatise he wrote in 1613, which is useful in the studying compositional practices of the 16th century.LifeCerone… …
34El Castillo Interior — ( trans.:The Interior Castle ) was written by Saint Teresa of Ávila in 1577. After being ordered to write her book the La Vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jesús (The Life of S. Teresa of Jesus), Teresa was hesitant to begin writing again on her… …
35Pero López de Ayala — Detail from Castilian manuscript of Saint Gregory s Morales (Commentary on Job). López de Ayala kneels before Saint Gregory. Don Pero (or Pedro) López de Ayala (1332–1407) was a Castilian statesman, historian, poet, chronicler, chancellor, and… …
36Enchanted forest — In literature, an enchanted forest is a forest under, or containing, enchantments. Such forests are described in the oldest folklore from regions where forests are common, and occur throughout the centuries to modern works of fantasy. They… …
37Robert Allot — (died 1635) was a London bookseller and publisher of the early Caroline era; his shop was at the sign of the black bear in St. Paul s Churchyard. Though he was in business for a relatively short time mdash; the decade from 1625 to 1635 mdash;… …
38Cuthbert Burby — Contents 1 Beginnings 2 Shakespeare 3 Other drama 4 Other …
39Nicholas Okes — Contents 1 Life and work 2 Shakespeare 3 And others 4 Pub …
40Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan — Louis Élisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan (4 November 1705, Le Mans 31 October 1783, from a fall from a carriage en route to Saint Leu la Forêt) was a French soldier, physician, scientist, medievalist and writer, best known for his… …
