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Article: Calderón De La Barca, Pedro
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CALDER
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N DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
CALDER
Ó
N DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
(1600
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1681), Spanish dramatist. Pedro Calder
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n de la Barca was one of the greatest dramatists of Spain's literary Golden Age. Born into a well-established Castilian family with ties to the court, Calder
ó
n received his early education at the Jesuit Imperial College of Madrid and went on to study logic, rhetoric, and mathematics at the University of Alcal
á
de Henares and canon law at the University of Salamanca. As a young man he lived an adventurous life in Madrid and gained the favor of King Philip IV (ruled 1621
–
1665), who rewarded him with knighthood in the Order of Santiago in 1636. ...