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He was born on December 24, 1819 at Montellano, Biscay, in 1821 (some sources say 1819).
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The Cid Campeador
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Corneille's masterpiece recounts the romantic story of Spains legendary hero "El Cid", the master warrior known for his prowess on the battlefield and his love of his wife Ximena. Born Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid was once an exile. When King Sancho was murdered in 1072, the Kings younger brother was widely suspected. Rodrigo made Alfonso swear to his innocence. The new king did not like being challenged, however, and exiled Rodrigo from Castile, forcing him to leave his family and cross into the no-mans land. With only a few faithful men, Rodrigo eventually conquered the city of Valencia. El Cid Campeador is a story of battle, however. It is an epic and sweeping tale of romance, that of a tender, loving husband and father, and of a knight with unswervingly loyal to his country and his king. He is an ever-present inspiration to Spanish patriotism. Long after his death, El Cid remains an idealised figure in Spain, immortalised in plays, film, folk tales and ballads. The Author Antonio De Trueba, a Spanish poet born in 1821, moved from Bilbao to Madrid as a young man hoping to become a writer. While he earned his living as a clerk, he wrote poems and stories, many sympathetic to the Basque soul and his longing for the landscape of northern Spain. His first collection of lyrics, the Libro de los cantares in 1852, enhanced his popularity and his charming tales convinced Queen Isabella II to appoint him historiographer of the Biscayan district. One of his more ambitious attempts at novel writing involved the Cid of legend.
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Antoniao de Trueba
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He was where he was privately educated.
Career
In 1835 he was sent to learn business at Madrid; but commerce was not to his taste, and, after a long apprenticeship, he turned to journalism. In 1851 he hit the popular taste with El Cid Campeador and El Libro de los cantares; for the next eleven years he was absorbed by journalistic work, the best of his contributions being issued under the titles of Cuentos populares (1862), Cuentos de color de rosa (1864). and Cuentos campesinos (1865). The pleasant simplicity and idyllic sentimentalism of these collections delighted an uncritical public, and Trueba met the demand by supplying a series of stories conceived in the same ingenuous vein. In 1862 he was appointed archivist and chronicler of the Biscay provinces; he was deprived of the former post in 1870, but was reinstated after the restoration. He died at Bilbao on the 10th of March 1889.
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The Cid Campeador
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The Cid Campeador
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