biography
| name: |
Ortega y Frías, Ramón
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pronunciation:
[ortayga ee freeas
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–83)
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| biography:
| Historical novelist, born in Granada, S Spain. His popularity as a writer of novels issued serially in magazines or pamphlets was due to his melodramatic plots and oversimplified characterization. An imitator of the serial-writer Manuel Fernández y González, he published many novels, including El tribunal de la sangre o los secretos de un rey (1867), a book combining his abhorrence of Felipe II and his understanding of the Inquisition as portrayed by Juan Antonio Llorente's study, which appeared in Spanish in 1822: El siglo de las tinieblas, o memorias de un inquisidor (1868), El Cid (1875), El testamento de un conspirador (1880) whose heroine is a daughter of Felipe IV, and El diablo en palacio (1882), on the life and intrigues of Don Carlos, usually considered his best novel. |
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