Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish baroque writer and philosopher renowned for his treatises on prudence and wit, such as El Criticón.
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- Belmonte de Gracián
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Trending topics shown first"The Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia in the original Spanish, with an English translation in progress"
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1601
Born
Birth1658
Died
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