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Gracián, Baltasar

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Baltasar Gracián Belmonte 1601.01.08 Tarazona 1658.12.06 M P0733

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela guitar lute guitarra laúd Cleric Ecclesiastical Church Author

Years active Place active Century Region
1620-1657 Calatayud Huesca Tarazona Aragón 17cent/1/early Aragon
Biographical information

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon). His proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Gracián

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Source documents
Date Document
1651 Baltasar Gracián, Criticón (part 1).
1653 Baltasar Gracián, Criticón (part 2).
1657 Baltasar Gracián,Criticón (part 3).


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