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Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Translator: Edward Fitzgerald
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By Pedro Calderon De La Barca
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born in Madrid, January 17, 1600, of
good family. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid and at the
University of Salamanca; and a doubtful tradition says that he began
to write plays at the age of thirteen. His literary activity was
interrupted for ten years, 1625-1635, by military service in Italy and
the Low Countries, and again for a year or more in Catalonia. In 1637
