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Philip III died in 1621, leaving the vast realm which he had inherited from his father, the gloomy though mighty Philip II, to his son, a youth of sixteen years, who came to the throne under the title of Philip IV. If Philip III was ruled by Lerma and Uceda, Philip IV, in his turn, was completely under the domination of the unprincipled Olivares, and his accession initiated one of the most interesting and most corrupt reigns that Spain has ever known.
El lector habrá ya comprendido que aludimos a FRANCISCO BRET HARTE, el novelista americano. No será inútil agregar que la muerte le sorprendió a los 62 años, cuando estaba todavía en la plena actividad de su espíritu, habiendo editado el año anterior Under the Redwoods y otro cuento From Sandhill to Pine.
El Trovador was given operatic form by the great Italian composer Giuseppi Verdi, and under its Italian title, Il Trovatore, is well known throughout the world.
=Yo tomé el gesto por donde más quedaba=, I took his grimace in the worst sense. =Tornaron a abrir la puerta=, they opened the door again. =Hay que=, it is necessary. =Las cuales=, refers to =columnas=. =Que debajo de ellas había=, which there were under them. =Todo lo comprendí=, I understood it all. =Presenciando=, by witnessing. =Como lo son ahora=, as they are now.
And all describe recent conditions, except the tale, partly historical and partly legendary, by Bécquer, which goes back to the invasion of Spain by the French under Napoleon in the early years of the nineteenth century; the story by Larra, which, however, is nearly as true of Castile to-day as it was when written; and Trueba's story, which is partly legendary, partly symbolic, and partly realistic.
Lope left the service of the Duke of Alba on his return to Madrid, or about that time, and during the next decade held similar positions under the Marqués de Malpica and the Conde de Lemos, and during a large part of this period he led a more or less vagabond existence wherever the whims of his employers or his own gallant adventures led him.
It is most important for the light it sheds on the early years of his life, for it is largely autobiographical. Another volume, issued from the pen of Lope in 1634 under the title of Rimas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos, contains the mock-heroic, La Gatomaquia, the highly humorous account of the love of two cats for a third.
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