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Marcelino Menndez Y PelayoMarcelino Menndez y Pelayo (November 3, 1856 - May 2, 1912) was a Spanish scholar and critic. He was born at Santander. In 1871-1872 he studied under Manuel Mil i Fontanals at the University of Barcelona, then proceeded to the central University of Madrid. His academic success was unprecedented; a special law was passed by the Cortes to enable him to become a professor at the age of twenty-two. Three years later he was elected a member of the Spanish Academy; but by this time he was well known throughout Spain. His first volume, Estudios crticos sobre escritores montaeses (1876), had attracted little notice, and his scholarly Horacio en Espaol (1877) appealed only to students. He became famous, through his Ciencia espaola (1878), a collection of polemical essays defending the national tradition against the attacks of political and religious reformers. The unbending orthodoxy of this work is even more noticeable in the Historia de los heterodoxos espaoles (1880-1886), and the writer was hailed as the champion of the ultramontane party. as the Catholic Encyclopedia (1908-10) described his work "Every page of his writings reveals a wealth of strong common sense, clear perception, and a vein of wonderful and ever varying erudition. Thoroughly Catholic in spirit, he found his greatest delight, he declared, in devoting all his work to the glory of God and the exaltation of the name of Jesus."http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16063a.htm. His lectures (1881) on Caldern established his reputation as a literary critic; and his work as an historian of Spanish literature was continued in his Historia de las ideas estticas en Espaa (1881-1891), his edition (1890-1903) of Lope de Vega, his Antologa de poetas lricos castellanos (1890-1906), and his Origenes de la novela (1905). Reference Menndez y Pelayo, Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo, Marcelino
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