By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Daz de Vivar?
Mocedades de Rodrigo Mocedades de Rodrigo The Mocedades de Rodrigo is the name given to a late, anonymous Castilian "cantar de gesta", composed around 1360, that relates the origins and exploits of the youth of the legendary hero El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar). There are 1164 surviving verses, preceded by an initial prose fragment. The only codex that contains the work is a manuscript from 1400 that is kept in the National Library of Paris. The text that has reached us lacks a title, and critics have variously titled the work "Mocedades de Rodrigo" or "del Cid" (The youthful deeds of Rodrigo,
Juan Correa de Vivar Juan Correa de Vivar Juan Correa de Vivar (c.1510 - 16 April 1566) was a Spanish painter. Correa was born in Mascaraque; his date of birth has been determined to be around 1510. Records show he grew up wealthy. When Juan was 17 or 18 years old he joined an artist workshop in Burgundy where he met with many other Spanish artists at the time, including Pedro de Cisneros, whom he befriended. Juan’s brother Eufrasia and Eufrasia’s son Rodrigo also grew up to be artists. Rodrigo was apprenticed with his uncle, and continued some of his uncle’s works after his