Francisco Rico Manrique
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Francisco Rico Manrique | |
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| Born | Francisco Rico Manrique 28 April 1942 |
| Died | 26 April 2024 (aged 81) |
| Seat p of the Real Academia Española | |
| Assumed office 4 June 1987[a] | |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
Francisco Rico Manrique (28 April 1942 – 26 April 2024) was a Spanish philologist.
Biography[edit]
He was a student of José Manuel Blecua and Martín de Riquer. He was a professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and, since 1987, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy as well as the Académia das Ciéncias de Lisboa, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the British Academy.[1][2]
Rico was elected to Seat p of the Real Academia Española on 13 March 1986, he took up his seat on 4 June 1987.[3]
He had edited many classics from the medieval period and the "Siglo de Oro", and had written numerous studies on medieval and renaissance literature. He had also edited the Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española (Nine volumes, with supplements).
He recently oversaw the Classical Library series (started by Editorial Crítica and now a part of "Reader's Circle", a division of Bertelsmann) following guidelines from the Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, which Rico began and helped to develop.
In 1998, he was awarded the twelfth Menéndez Pelayo International Prize and, in 2004, the Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Research Prize.
He died in Barcelona on 26 April 2024, at the age of 81.[4]
Selected works[edit]
- La novela picaresca y el punto de vista, Seix Barral (1970). English translation, The Picaresque Novel and the Point of View, Cambridge Univ. press, 1984.
- Alfonso el Sabio y la "General Estoria", Ariel (1972)
- Primera cuarentena y Tratado general de literatura, El Festín de Esopo (1982) ISBN 84-8570-427-4
- Texto y contextos: Estudios sobre la poesía española del siglo XV, Grijalba Mondadori (1991) ISBN 84-7423-501-4
- El sueño del humanismo Alianza (1993) ISBN 84-206-2754-2
- Figuras con paisaje, Destino (1994) ISBN 84-233-4200-X
- Los discursos del gusto, Destino (2003) ISBN 84-233-3573-9
- Tiempos del "Quijote", Acantilado (2012) ISBN 84-15-68908-X
About Rico[edit]
- Brancaforte, Benito (1984). Sobre críticos y hombres : réplica a Francisco Rico. [Reply to Primera cuarentena y Tratado general de literatura]. Madison, Wisconsin: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. OCLC 49707306.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Elected on 13 March 1986
References[edit]
- ^ "Francisco Rico". Cervantes Virtual. 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ "Francisco Rico". Lecturalia. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ "Francisco Rico Manrique". Real Academia Española. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ^ Ors, Javier (27 April 2024). "Muere Francisco Rico, el gran editor de «El Quijote»". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 April 2024.
