Galician Writers - Alfonso X of Castile, Alfonso Daniel Rodriguez Castelao, Rosalia de Castro, Camilo Jose Cela, Ricardo Carvalho Calero (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Alfonso X of Castile, Alfonso Daniel Rodriguez Castelao, Rosalia de Castro, Camilo Jose Cela, Ricardo Carvalho Calero, Vicente Risco, Manuel Murguia, Marilar Aleixandre, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, Jose Maria Merino, Juan Rodriguez de la Camara, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Eduardo Pondal, Ricardo Flores Peres, Otero Pedrayo, Concepcion Arenal, Claudio Rodriguez Fer, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Ramon Chao, Manuel Curros Enriquez, Albino Nunez Dominguez, Miguel Angel Villar Pinto, Benito Jeronimo Feijoo y Montenegro, Chus Pato, Xose Luis Mendez Ferrin, Ignacio Ramonet, Carmen Blanco, Martin Veiga, Manuel Rivas, Alvaro Cunqueiro, Jose Maria Posada, Xurxo Borrazas, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Jacinto Rey, Yolanda Castano, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Lorenzo Varela, Olga Novo, Wenceslao Fernandez Florez, Xaquin Lorenzo Fernandez, Luis Seoane, Maria Marino, Xesus Ferro Ruibal, Xela Arias, Martin Sarmiento, Ursula Heinze, Eladio Rodriguez, Anton Vilar Ponte. Excerpt: Alfonso X (23 November 1221 - 4 April 1284) was a Castilian monarch who ruled as the King of Castile, Leon and Galicia from 1252 until his death. He also was elected King of the Germans in 1257. He established Castilian as a language of higher learning and earned his nicknames "the Wise" or "the Learned" (Spanish: , Galician: ) and "the Astrologer" (Spanish: , Galician: ) through his own prolific writings, including Galician poetry. Statue of Alfonso X in Madrid by Jose Alcoverro (1892).Born in Toledo, Spain, Alfonso was the eldest son of Ferdinand III of Castile and Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen, known in Spain as Beatriz de Suabia, through whom he was a cousin of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, to whom Alfonso is often compared. His maternal grandparents were Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina. Not much is known about his upbringing, but he was most like...