Word: macowen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Devotion & Cold Eyes. Writing on a fellowship granted by Catholic Publisher Bruce, Biographer Gary MacEóin (pronounced MacOwen) hammers away determinedly at the contention of such scholars as Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and Princeton Professor Américo Castro that Cervantes was a free-thinking man of the Renaissance who included devout passages in his work only because the cold eye of the Inquisition was on him. To prove his case, he offers dozens of devout quotations from Cervantes' works, and adds that since "not a single line [was] erased by [Inquisition censors] during...
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