Jorge Manrique

Birth: 1440-01-01 , Segura de la Sierra

Death: 1479-03-27 , Santa María del Campo Rus

Jorge Manrique was a 15th-century Spanish poet whose work is framed within the transition between medieval lyricism and the Renaissance. He is especially remembered for his "Coplas a la muerte de su padre" (Coplas on the Death of His Father), an elegiac poem that has become a landmark of Castilian language poetry. In this work, Manrique reflects on the transience of life, the vanity of worldly glories, and equality before death, with a sober and profound style that transcends his era.

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Let the dozing soul remember, let the mind awake and revive by contemplating how our life goes by so swiftly and how our death comes near so silently; how quickly pleasure fades, and how when it is recalled it give us pain, how we seem always to think that times past must have been better than today.

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