biography
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Navarro Villoslada, Francisco
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pronunciation:
[navaroh veelyoslah
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| male
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| lived:
| (1818–95)
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| biography:
| Historical novelist, born in Viana, Navarra, N Spain. A fanatical Roman Catholic and Carlist, he founded El Pensamiento Español in 1860 to propagate his views. His literary reputation rests on three imaginative and effective novels inspired by the success of Sir Walter Scott: Doña Blanca de Navarra, crónica del siglo XV (1847); Doña Urraca de Castilla, memorias de tres canónigos (1849); and Amaya, o los vascos en el siglo VIII (3 vols, 1879). Amaya is concerned with the alliance between Visigoths and Basques against the Arab–Berber invasion. It was too melodramatic for its time, and suffered the further disadvantage of appearing when Galdós was at the height of his achievement and fame. Navarro's Obras completas (1947) exclude his political writings and other journalism. |
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