Spanish Golden Age

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He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Duality of man Stupidity

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Blessed be he that invented sleep.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Sleep

Speaker

Sancho Panza

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

To Sancho Panza, on his asking whether, to get to heaven, we should all become monks.

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Topic

Vocation God and man Eternal life

Speaker

Don Quixote

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

The Dialogue of the Dogs

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Topic

Discipline

Speaker

Berganza

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

The Dialogue of the Dogs Exemplary Tales

Medium

Short story

Language

Spanish

Time

1613 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. "El coloquio de los perros [The Dialogue of the Dogs]." Novelas ejemplares [Exemplary Novels]. Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1613.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. "The Dialogue of the Dogs." Exemplary Stories. Oxford University Press, 2008.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Topic

Nature of life Life Dreams

Speaker

Sigismund

Author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Source

Life is a Dream

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

Current Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

The pen is the tongue of the soul.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Writing Self-expression

Speaker

Don Quixote

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Rich vs. poor

Speaker

Sancho Panza

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Diligence Idleness Hard work Fortune

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

When love is not madness,
it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Speaker

El Tetrarca Herodes

Author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Source

Jealousy, the Greatest Monster

Medium

Play

Language

Spanish

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. El Mayor Monstruo, Los Celos: Tragedia en Tres Actos [The Greatest Monster, Jealousy: Tragedy in Three Acts]. 1637.

Current Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Jealousy the Greatest Monster, translated by Ann L. Mackenzie and Jose Maria Ruano de la Ruano de la Haza. Liverpool University Press, 2017.

There is no greater glory than love
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Felix Lope de Vega

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Topic

Love Jealousy

Speaker

Dorotea

Author

Felix Lope de Vega

Source

La Dorotea

Medium

Play

Language

Spanish

Time

1632 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lope de Vega, Jose. La Dorotea. Madrid, 1632.

Current Citation

Lope de Vega, Jose. La Dorotea, translated by Alan S. Trueblood and Edwin Honig. Harvard University Press, 1985.