Baltasar Gracián y Morales, S.J. (Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit...

outlook was influenced by Gracián, and he translated The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence into German. He praised Gracián for his aphoristic writing...

Gracián is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), Spanish writer and philosopher Jerónimo Gracián (1545-1614)...

El Criticón is a Spanish novel by Baltasar Gracián. It was published in three parts in the years 1651, 1653 and 1657. It is considered his greatest work...

which occurred during the 17th century in which prose writers such as Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo, playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de...

Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. It is a collection of 300 maxims, each with...

15th-century castle. It is the birthplace of Baltasar Gracián y Morales, and in 1985 was renamed to Belmonte de Gracián in his honour. Previously the town was...

aphorisms is Adagia by Erasmus. Other important early aphorists were Baltasar Gracián, François de La Rochefoucauld, and Blaise Pascal. Two influential collections...

emphasised over elaborate vocabulary. A major theorist of the movement, Baltasar Gracián, in his work Agudeza y arte de ingenio, defined "concept" as "an act...

(12th century) Lazarillo de Tormes (first edition 1554) El Criticón by Baltasar Gracián (first edition 1651). Usually considered the pioneering work in its...

Marino's epic Adone and the work of the Spanish Jesuit philosopher Baltasar Gracián – developed a theory of metaphor as a universal language of images...

in his essay Il Cortigiano. In the 17th century, the Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián wrote about the theme of wisdom. In England, during the Age of Enlightenment...

century important works were the prose of Francisco de Quevedo and Baltasar Gracián. A notable author was Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, famous for his...

Benavides's Warnings for kings, princes and ambassadors (1643), and Baltasar Gracián's The Discreet (1646). Balthasar Charles with a court dwarf, by Velázquez...

Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, and especially Baltasar Gracián.: 420  He also made failed attempts to publish his translations of...

was an important missionary in the Jesuit reductions of Paraguay. Baltasar Gracián was a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher...

Italian by Adriano Politi 1600 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville 1601 – Baltasar Gracián 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard 1603 – Pierre Corneille 1605 – Thomas...

1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1638) 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658) 1626 – Jean Talon, first Intendant...

Italian editions of 1570 and 1576. Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) and Baltasar Gracián (1601–58) brought a different kind of sophistication to poetic. Emanuele...

pondering and crafting language, such as some by Confucius, Plato, Baltasar Gracián, etc. Others are taken from such diverse sources as poetry, stories...

great-grandson of J. Paul Getty Balthasar Glättli (born 1972), Swiss politician Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658), Spanish Baroque prose writer Balthasar Hubmaier...

Marino's epic Adone and the work of the Spanish Jesuit philosopher Baltasar Gracián - developed a theory of metaphor as a universal language of images...

Descartes (1596–1650). Heliocentrism, mind-body dualism, rationalism. Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658). Spanish Catholic philosopher François de La Rochefoucauld...

language. The Battle of Graus took place here, and Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracián y Morales was exiled here. During the Spanish Civil War, the village...

time of his suicide, he had copies of books and articles written by Baltasar Gracián, Otto Weininger, H. G. Wells, and George B. Leonard. While some postwar...

Spanish literature, a similar to the Marinism Francisco de Quevedo, Baltasar Gracián Culteranismo Another 17th-century Spanish Baroque movement, in contrast...

education of poor boys at Rome and founded a society pledged to that work Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), writer of Spanish Baroque literature Pablo Bruna (1611–1679)...

Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Kenkō 12. How to Use Your Enemies - Baltasar Gracián 13. The Eve of St Agnes - John Keats 14. Woman Much Missed - Thomas...

intellectuals at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), author of El Criticón, influenced European philosophers...

1552) 1618 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) 1658 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (b. 1601) 1675 – John Lightfoot, English...