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    Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (7 August 1533 – 29 November 1594) was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against...
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  • Colegio Alonso de Ercilla (English: Alonso de Ercilla School) is a Chilean high school located in Rancagua, Cachapoal Province, Chile. It was founded...
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    English as The Araucaniad) is a 16th-century epic poem in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile. It was considered the national...
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  • flowering plants in the Phytolaccaceae family 3114 Ercilla, a main belt asteroid Alonso de Ercilla (1533–1594), a Spanish nobleman, soldier, epic poet...
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    lonco") in the early period of the Arauco War. He was a major figure in Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's epic poem La Araucana, about the early Arauco War. In the...
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  • Vidas. Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga: La Araucana (in Spanish). Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Spanish soldier and poet, Encyclopædia Britannica. Alonso de Ercilla...
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    elected Toqui of the Mapuche people, as Lautaro’s successor (although Alonso de Ercilla states he was elected previously and that he was a secret candidate...
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  • (born 1978), Costa Rican footballer Alonso de Solís, Spanish explorer and governor of Florida in 1576 Alonso de Ercilla (1533–1594), Spanish soldier and...
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    described in the late 16th-century epic poem La Araucana. In Canto XXI, Alonso de Ercilla described Talcahuano, warrior and chief of the Mapuche who work the...
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    gobernador aperrear." La Araucana, Alonso de Ercilla Jerónimo de Vivar, Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile (Chronicle and abundant...
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    Tourtoirac, France. In 1858, Antoine de Tounens, a former lawyer in Périgueux (France) had read the book of Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, and decided to go...
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  • April 2015. Its title is a reference to Alonso de Ercilla who wrote the first epic poem in Spanish in Chile. Ercilla was established in 1936. The magazine...
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    Coahuiltecan. Only four men managed to escape: Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, and an African slave of Dorantes...
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  • is a Chilean historical musical based on the epic poem by Spaniard Alonso de Ercilla, which relates the first phrase of the Arauco War between the Spaniards...
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    las demás de los cristianos, que no les escapó ninguno.. Ercilla, Alonso de. "Canto III". La Araucana. Primera Parte (in Spanish).. Mariño de Lobera, Pedro...
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    possible ending to the comedy by Agustin de Salazar: The Second Celestina (La Segunda Celestina). Alonso de Ercilla wrote the epic poem La Araucana about...
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  • doubts illumined and absorbed. The Spanish poets Boscán, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga and Lope de Vega all experimented with ottava rima at one time or another...
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    judoka Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533–1594), Spanish nobleman, soldier and poet Alonso Zúñiga (born 1980), Chilean footballer Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga...
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    the future battles which he led against the Spanish. Both Alonso de Ercilla and Pedro Mariño de Lobera described her in their travel logs as a "very beautiful...
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    1533 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1611) August 2 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) August 7 Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595) Valentin Weigel, German...
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    important works of Spanish literature, the epic poem La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, is considered by Chile to be favorable to their territorial claims...
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    success. In 1858, Antoine de Tounens, a former lawyer in Périgueux, France, who had read the book La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, decided to go to Araucania...
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    Fernando de Rojas Bartolomé de las Casas John of Ávila Garcilaso de la Vega Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Teresa of Ávila Luis de León Alonso de Ercilla Fernando...
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    bird, not a beast, nor a tree, nor any vegetation. La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, 1569 In 2008, the Phoenix Mars Lander detected perchlorates on the...
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    by Pierre de Ronsard (1540s–1572) Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c. 1572) L'Amadigi by Bernardo Tasso (1560) La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga...
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    Bautista de Anza Domingo de Bonechea Juan Sebastián Elcano Alonso de Ercilla Martín García Óñez de Loyola Adrián de Moxica Juan de Garay Francisco de Garay...
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  • Ercilla is a Chilean town and commune in the Malleco Province, Araucanía Region. Its name is a tribute to Alonso de Ercilla, who wrote La Araucana. According...
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  • of La Araucana (The Araucaniad) by the 16th-century Spanish poet Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533–1594). For this translation he was awarded with the...
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    lies in the universality of the epic work La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla, and the feats of that people in their long and interminable war against...
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    Eberhard Kossmann. Ships built by Asenav: Ferries Fueguino (1999) Alonso de Ercilla (2001) Patagonia (2006) Cruz del Sur II (2006) Crux Australis (2008)...
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