PATRICIO DE LA ESCOSURA
\patɹˈɪsɪˌə͡ʊ də lˌa ˈɛskəʒəɹə], \patɹˈɪsɪˌəʊ də lˌa ˈɛskəʒəɹə], \p_a_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_s_ɪ__ˌəʊ d_ə l_ˌa ˈɛ_s_k_ə_ʒ_ə_ɹ_ə]\
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A Spanish novelist and poet; born at Madrid, Nov. 5, 1807; died there, Jan. 22, 1878. After political and military ups and downs and being twice exiled, he became Under-Secretary of State, and afterward ambassador variously. He wrote the historical novels "The Count de Candespina", "Neither King nor Pawn", and "The Patriarch of the Valley"; the epics "The Bust in Black Cloak" and "Hernan Cortes at Cholula"; several dramas, the most successful of which was "Hernan Cortes's Debaucheries"; and many historical works, among them a "Constitutional History of England".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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