Francisco Rico Manrique
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Francisco Rico Manrique (born 28 April 1942, Barcelona) is a Spanish philologist.
He was a student of José Manuel Blecua and Martín de Riquer. He is 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 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the British Academy.[1][2]
Rico Manrique 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 has edited many classics from the medieval period and the "Siglo de Oro", and has written numerous studies on medieval and renaissance literature. He has also edited the Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española (Nine volumes, with supplements).
He currently oversees 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.
Selected works
- La novela picaresca y el punto de vista, Seix Barral (1970)
- 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
References
- ^ Biblioteca Virtual: Francisco Rico
- ^ Lecturalia: Francisco Rico
- ^ "Francisco Rico Manrique". Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
