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Benemerita, La

 

Bengal Lancers

 

Benidorm

 

Benitez, Manuel (El Cordobes)

 

Benjamin of Tudela

 

Berbers

 

Bernabeu, Estadio

 

Bernardini-Sjoesedt, Armand

 

Berruguete, Alonso de

 

Bertrand, Louis

 

Beruete Calleja, Francisco

 

Bestard, Bartolome

 

Bible in Spain, The

 

Bibles

 

Biblia Poliglota Complutense

 

Biblioteca Nacional

 

Bienvenida;
see
Mejias, Antonio

 

Bilbao

 

birds

 

birds’ eggs

 

Biscay, Bay of

 

Bizet, Georges

 

Black Legend

 

Blas, Saint, day of

 

Blasco Ibanez, Vicente

 

Blot on the Nobility of Spain

 

Boabdil

 

Boanerges, James and John

 

Boccaccio, Giovanni

 

Boheme, La

 

Bologna University

 

Bonaparte, Napoleon

 

Bonet y Gari, Luis

 

books

 

Borbon dynasty

 

Borgia

 

Borgona, Felipe de

 

Borgona, Juan de

 

Borobudur

 

Borox, el de

 

Borrow, George

 

Bosch, Hieronymus

 

Botafumeiros

 

Boyl, Bernard

 

Brahms, Johannes

 

Brazil

 

Brenan, Gerald

 

British Institute

 

Brooks, Mary Elizabeth

 

Brussels

 

Bugia (Bougie)

 

building explosion

 

Bullfighter

 

Bullfighter from Brooklyn

 

bullfighting: novillada; corruption of; drama of; and boxing; and
football; and soccer; vocabulary of; explained; components of;
matador; beginning matador; capeas; literature on; epochs of;
in in Mexico; ambiente of; press and; and cinema; bullring;
and baseball; aficionados; criticism of; statistics; clubs

 

bull ranch

 

bulls, in the swamps

 

bulls, the fighting: black banderillas; Extremadura; testing heifers;
Concha bull; bull ranch; running of; at Altamira; concurso of;
Miura bull; Tulio Vasquez bulls; Salamancan and Andalusian
compared; Cobaleda bulls; Benitez Cubero bulls; abuse of

 

Burgos

 

‘Burial of Count Orgaz, The,’

 

‘Burial of Sir John Moore, The,’

 

burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra, El

 

Burriana

 

Bustillo Perez, Father Miguel

 

Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cabriola

 

cadetes de la reina, Los

 

Cadiz

 

Caesar Augustus

 

Caesarea

 

Cafe Leon

 

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
California

 

Calixtus III

 

Cambados

 

camel

 

Camino, Paco

 

Campo, Dr. Salustiano del
Campo, Pedro do

 

Candel, Francisco

 

Canilleros, Conde de

 

Cano, Manuel (El Pireo)
Canogar, Rafael
capitan Veneno, El

 

Capote, Truman

 

Carlists

 

Carlos I and V; and Cisneros; statue at Alcazar; museum of Santa

Cruz; and decline of Spain; Holy Roman Emperor; campaigns
of; tomb of; at Yuste; Inquisition; El Escorial; imprisons mother;
cathedral in Great Mosque; castle in Alhambra; and paintings;
Salamanca

Carlos II (The Bewitched)

 

Carlos III

 

Carlos IV

 

Carlos, Don (son of Felipe II)

 

Carlos, Don (son of Carlos IV)

 

Carlos, The King Who Would Not Die

 

Carmel, California

 

Carmen

 

Carney, Matt

 

“Carols and Kennedy,”

 

carp

 

Carrero Blanco, Admiral Luis, Vice President

 

Cartagena

 

Carthage

 

Caruana Gomez de Barreda, Jaime

 

Casa de las Conchas

 

Casals, Pau (Pablo)

 

Casas y Novoa, Fernando de

 

casetas

 

Castellon de la Plana

 

Castielfabib

 

Castilian Spanish

 

Castilla

 

‘Castle in Spain’: at Almodovar del Rio; of carlos V; at Arevalo
Castro, Rosalia de

 

Castrogeriz

 

Catalan nationalism

 

Catalina (Catherine of Aragon)

 

Cataluna

 

cathedrals: Badajoz; Toledo; Great Mosque; Granada; Sevilla;

Pamplona; Palma; Leon; Santiago de Compostela
Catherine the Great

 

Catholic Church: service; devotion to; speculations on; and

newspapers; rules for women; movie censorship; hospitals; and
education; Carmelite martyrs; Carlos I and V; marriage; and
the Army; and nobility; divisions in; power in Spain; Rome;
John XXIII; role of young priests; and succession; Opus Dei;
feudalism; and students; and seminarians; and Carlism; role
of in Spain

Catholic kings;

see
Fernando de Aragon, Isabel de Castilla
Catholicism

 

Caucasus

 

caviar, Guadalquivir

 

Cebrero

 

Cela, Camilo Jose

 

Cellini, Benvenuto

 

Celtiberians

 

Celtic Spain

 

censorship

 

Cerf, Bennett

 

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

 

Ceuta

 

Cezanne, Paul

 

Chagall, Marc

 

Charlemagne

 

Charley’s Aunt

 

Chateauneuf du Pape

 

Chaucer, Geoffrey

 

chicory

 

Chihuahua

 

Chillida, Eduardo

 

China

 

Chopin, Frederic

 

churros

 

Ciano, Count Galeazzo

 

Cid Campeador, El

 

circus

 

Cisneros;
see
Jimenez de Cisneros, Gonzalo
Civil War

 

Claramont of Aragon

 

Classical Dictionary
(William Smith)
Claudius

 

Clavijo, Battle of

 

Clement V

 

Clement VII

 

climate

 

closed society

 

club; average day in (Badajoz)

 

Cluniac reforms

 

Cobaleda, bulls of

 

Coca-Cola

 

cocido

 

cockleshells

 

Coelho, Mario

 

Colegiata de Santa Maria la Real de Sar
Colon, Don Xptova

 

colonies, Spanish

 

‘Coloso o El Panico, El,’

 

Columbus, Christopher

 

communism in Spain

 

Communist Party

 

communists

 

Complete Works of Josep Pla, The

 

‘Compostela,’

 

Concha y Sierra

 

confraternity

 

Conquest of Granada

 

Conquest of Granada, The

 

conquistadors

 

Conrad, Barnaby

 

Constantinople

 

Convento de los Angeles

 

coot

 

Copin, Diego, of Holland

 

coquille St. Jacques

 

Cordoba; Islamic heritage; Seneca; Hosius; Moises de Maimon;

Averroes; ruins at Medinat az-Zahara; Great Mosque;
courtyards Jewish quarter; parador at; Muslim occupation,
judgment on; Romantic Movement

Cordobes, El;

see
Benitez, Manuel Corinthian

 

Corinthian

 

cork

 

corn

 

Corneille, Pierre

 

Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de

 

Correggio, Antonio Allegri da

 

corsi

 

Corsica

 

Cortel Zuriaga, Francisco

 

Cortes, Hernan

 

Coruna, La

 

Corunna

 

Cossio, Jose Maria de

 

Costa Brava

 

Costa del Azahar

 

Costillares;
see
Rodriguez, Joaquin

 

Coto Donana

 

Courtyard of the Lions

 

Crete

 

cronista

 

Cross, Brewster

 

Crucifixion

 

Crusades, the

 

Cuban War

 

Cubero, Benitez, bulls of
Cuenca

 

Culverwell, John

 

Cypresses Believe in God, The
Cyprus

Daley, Robert

 

Dali, Salvador

 

Dama de Elche

 

damascene

 

Damascus

 

dance;
see
flamenco, sardana, malaguenos, fandangos
Daniel

 

‘Dark Night of the Soul, The,’

 

date palms

 

David, Gerard

 

Death in the Afternoon

 

Death of a Salesman

 

Debussy, Claude

 

decline of Spain

 

deer

 

de Gaulle, General Charles

 

Delibes, Miguel

 

‘demoiselles d’Avignon, Les,’

 

DEMON PASTRY COOK, THE

 

Denia y Tarifa, Condesa de

 

Denmark

 

Dennis, Amarie

 

depositada

 

‘Deposition from the Cross,’

 

Descola, Jean

 

Desperdicios;
see
Dominguez, Manuel

 

d’Harcourt, Rey

 

dia de la raza, El

 

dia de Santiago, El

 

Diaz-Plaja, Guillermo

 

Dicken, F. Trueman

 

Dickinson, Emily

 

Diego, Gerardo

 

Diego, Juan

 

‘Disasters of War, The’

 

Di Stefano, Alfredo

 

doctors

 

Dominguez, Manuel (Desperdicios)

 

Dominguin, Luis Miguel;
see
Gonzalez, Luis Miguel
Don Alvaro, o la fuerza del sino

 

Don Carlos (son of Felipe II);
see
Carlos, Don (son of Felipe II)
Don Carlos (son of Carlos IV);
see
Carlos, Don (son of Carlos

IV)

 

Don Carlos
(Schiller)

 

Don Carlos
(Verdi)

 

Don Fernando

 

Don Giovanni

 

Don Juan

 

Don Juan de Austria;
see
Juan de Austria, Don

 

Don Juan Tenorio

 

Don Quixote

 

Donne, John

 

Drake, Sir Francis

 

ducks

 

duende

 

Duero, Rio

 

Dundee

 

Duns Scotus, John
Durer, Albrecht

eagle, imperial

 

Earliest Memories

 

Ebro, Rio

 

Eby, Cecil D.

 

economics; banking, Medina del Campo; banking, Azbacheria;

and peasants; role of Carlos V; Muslim occupation; gold
problem; decline of agriculture; decline of manufacturers;
decline of Spain

Edinburgh, Duke of

 

education; a theory of

 

Egas, Enrique de

 

egret, cattle

 

Einstein, Albert

 

Elcano, Juan Sebastian

 

Elche

 

El Greco; portraits of: twelve disciples, St. Peter, Jesus, Mary,

Santo Domingo (Toledo); ‘Spoliation of Christ’; ‘The Burial
of Count Orgaz’; Assumption of the Virgin’; paintings at
museum of Santa Cruz

Eliot, T. S.

 

Elisofon, Eliot

 

Elizabeth I of England

 

Elizabeth II of England

 

Ellis, Havelock

 

Elvas

 

Encina, Juan del

 

Encinas, Alonso de

 

encyclopedias

 

England;
see
Great Britain

 

English Dictionary, The, or an Interpretation of Hard English Words

Enoch, Book of

 

Enrique IV of Castilla

 

entremeses variados

 

Escorial, El

 

Espasa-Calpe

 

Esperanza, La

 

Espinal

 

Espinosa, Fermin (Armillita Chico)
Espinosa, Gabriel de

 

Estella

 

Estella, Marques de (Primo de Rivera)
Estoril

 

Estudiante, El;
see
Gomez, Luis
estupendo

 

Ethiopia

 

Eunate

 

European Common Market

 

‘Expulsion of the Jews, The’

 

Extremadura

Fabiola, Queen

 

falcons

 

Falla, Manuel de

 

fallas

 

Family of Pascual Duarte, The

 

fandangos

 

Faro

 

Fatima, Virgin of

 

Faulkner, William

 

Feininger, Lyonel

 

Feito, Luis

 

Felipe I de Castilla

 

Felipe II; and paintings; Black legend; Escorial, El; and Inquisition;

and decline of Spain; as ruler; and Don Carlos; and Pastry Cook
Felipe III

 

Felipe IV

 

Felipe V

 

feria; Sevilla-Pamplona comparison

 

Fernandez-Cruz, Dr. Arturo

 

Fernandez Lopez, Juan

 

Fernando de Aragon; Battle of Lepanto; Battle of Toro; and

Granada; tomb of, at Granada; illegitimate children; marriage
of; appearance of; and Machiavelli; behavior at death of Isabel;
second marriage of; and Columbus;

see
Isabel de Castilla

Fernando VII

 

Ferragut

 

Ferrer, Mel

 

Ferrol del Caudillo, El

 

Fielding, Temple

 

Filgueira-Valerde, Jose

 

film industry

 

‘Finding of Moses, The’

 

Finisterre

 

fireworks

 

First Time in This Plaza

 

fiscorn

 

flamenco

 

flamingo

 

flan

 

Fleming, Alexander, Dr.

 

floats

 

Foix, Germaine de

 

football, European style

 

Ford, Richard

 

Foreign Legion

 

Forza del Destino, La

 

fox

 

France; cultural influence

 

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