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Juan de la Cueva

1543 - 1612

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Juan de la Cueva de Garoza (1543–1612) was a Spanish dramatist and poet. He was born in Seville to an aristocratic family; his younger brother Claudio, with whom he spent some time in Guadalajara, Mexico, went on to become an archdeacon and inquisitor. He was acquainted with a number of major contemporary intellectual figures, including Fernando de Herrera and Juan de Mal Lara, and took part in the Casa de Pilatos literary academy in Seville. After his return to Spain in 1577, he began writing for the stage and produced a total of ten comedies and four tragedies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan de la Cueva is the 4,506th most popular writer (up from 4,749th in 2019), the 1,417th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,464th in 2019) and the 163rd most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among writers, Juan de la Cueva ranks 4,506 out of 7,302. Before him are Bhoja, William of Apulia, Ayşe Kulin, Michel Déon, Uwe Timm, and David Baldacci. After him are Philoxenus of Mabbug, Rosa Sensat, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Régine Deforges, Hector Bianciotti, and Alexander Galich.

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Among people born in 1543, Juan de la Cueva ranks 13. Before him are John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Kanō Eitoku, Michele Ruggieri, Christine of Hesse, Giovanni de' Medici, and Giovanni Bembo.  Among people deceased in 1612, Juan de la Cueva ranks 27. Before him are Nicholas Rémy, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Arima Harunobu, Konoe Sakihisa, Giulio Cesare Polerio, and Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow. After him are Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, John Gerard, and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de la Cueva ranks 1,417 out of 3,355. Before him are Diego Durán (1537), Elena Anaya (1975), Sergi López (1965), Jaime Lazcano (1909), Joaquín Jovellar y Soler (1819), and Alfonso Pérez (1972). After him are Rosa Sensat (1873), Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas (1859), Paul Naschy (1934), Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (null), Tete Montoliu (1933), and Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia (1800).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Juan de la Cueva ranks 163. Before him are Manuel Curros Enríquez (1851), Francisco Umbral (1932), Antonio Muñoz Molina (1956), Gloria Fuertes (1917), Vicente Espinel (1550), and Diego Durán (1537). After him are Rosa Sensat (1873), Almudena Grandes (1960), Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880), Enric Valor i Vives (1911), Ramón J. Sender (1901), and Jean Cassou (1897).

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