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    Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (born Gaspar Melchor de Jove y Llanos, 5 January 1744 – 27 November 1811) was a Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher...
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  • Gaspar Gálvez Burgos (born 1979), Spanish footballer known simply as Gaspar Gaspar Lococo, co-founder of Funtime, Inc. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744–1811)...
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    Galician thinker Benito de Feijóo settled in the Benedictine Monastery of San Vicente de Oviedo. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a polymath and prominent...
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    the Spanish writer Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. The same year it achieved the status of villa (town). Jovellanos is also called "Bemba" by its inhabitants...
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    associate of Manuel Godoy, Prince of Peace, who was a friend of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who in turn brought him in contact with Goya, who lived nearby;...
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  • such as the Fonda de San Sebastián, founded by Nicolás Fernández de Moratín and his son Leandro, together with Cadalso and Jovellanos. Two writers were...
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    Francisco de Isla Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Neoclassical poetry Tomás de Iriarte (Fábulas literarias) Juan Meléndez Valdés Félix María de Samaniego...
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  • published until 1755. His work was translated into Spanish by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, probably in the late 1770s, and considered essential reading...
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    be seen in tomb A of the Cathedral in Santiago of Compostela. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, an Asturian intellectual of the Enlightenment, led a note with...
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  • royal decree to the effect on 22 May. A committee presided by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos organized the legal and logistical efforts to carry this out...
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    Asturian language (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    according to Ruiz de la Peña in 1981, a literature comparable to that in Asturias in Castilian). In 1744, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos wrote about the historic...
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  • during this time, led by poets including Ignacio de Luzán Claramunt and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who contributed greatly to the neoclassical movement...
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    Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca or Tirso de Molina. During the Enlightenment authors included, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, and...
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  • Spain, one of the leading intellectuals was Minister of Justice Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who in an address to the Royal Academy of History, called on...
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    y Vigo Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil, Marqués de Santa Cruz de Marcenado Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, statesman and poet (1744–1811), died here v t...
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    2022. "Biografia de Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos". biografiasyvidas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 1, 2022. "El Ferrocarril de Langreo, 150 años moviendo...
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    Spain and the lack of productiveness of those landed estates. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos drafted the Informe para una ley Agraria ("A report for an Agrarian...
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    political prisoners, the most famous of these being the minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1802–1808) who first made a description of the castle and commissioned...
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    show. Gijón is the birth place of several notable people, like Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age...
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    attributed to the Prince and the Principality of Asturias, as proved Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, author, philosopher and main figure of the Age of Enlightenment...
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    published until 1755. His work was translated into Spanish by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, probably in the late 1770s, and considered essential reading...
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    and Jean-Baptiste Say, as well as the Spanish writer-statesman Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the only economist Sancianco mentions by name. In Progreso,...
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    Cienfuegos-Jovellanos Vigil-Escalera, died on 9 August 2004, at the age of 85. De Silva is a direct descendant of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos through his...
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    Early in his career, he was supported by statesman and author Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who, in 1787, arranged for him to study for a year in Paris...
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    Charles's regime. In an attempt to implement major economic changes, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a reformist, Jansenist conservative proposed major structural...
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    century, when Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Carlos González de Posada talk in their letters about the idea of creating it in 1791. Jovellanos' project,...
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    the deleterious Act of Consolidation. A Spanish intellectual Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos wrote a critique of the decline of Spain as an economic power...
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    intellectuals close to the Spanish court—an essay published In 1781 by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos said of Velázquez that "when he died, the glory of Painting in...
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    Bretón de los Herreros Camilo José Cela Miguel Delibes José Echegaray Fernando Fernán Gómez Wenceslao Fernández Flórez Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Alicia...
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    Pelagius of Asturias Alfonso I of Asturias Silo of Asturias Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Fernando Villaamil Leopoldo Alas José Andrés (chef) Federico...
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