biography
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García de Santa María, Pablo
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pronunciation:
[gah(r)theea thay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1350–1435)
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| biography:
| A member of a leading Jewish converso family, tutor to Juan II father of Alfonso de Santa María de Cartagena and brother of Álvar García de Santa María, born in Salomon ha-Levi, in Burgos, NC Spain. He chose to be baptized in July 1390 as Pablo García de Santa María, and studied to become a priest. He met the pope in Avignon, was appointed an archdeacon to the See of Burgos (1395), created Bishop of Cartagena (1401), and later became Bishop of Burgos (1415). His long historico-allegorical poem of Las siete edades del mundo, o Edades trovadas was completed before 1404, though dedicated in 1430. The poem, in octavo reales, attempts to deal summarily with the whole history of the world up to the birth of Juan II. |
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