Francisco Rico Manrique
Francisco Rico Manrique was a Spanish philologist.
Biography
Rico Manrique was a student of José Manuel Blecua and Martín [de Riquer]. He was a professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and, since 1987, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy as well as the Académia das Ciéncias de Lisboa, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the British Academy.On 13 March 1986, he was elected to Seat p of the Real Academia Española. He took up his seat on 4 June 1987.
Rico Manrique had edited many classics from the medieval period and the "Siglo de Oro", and had written numerous studies on medieval and renaissance literature. He had also edited the Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española.
Rico Manrique later oversaw the Classical Library series following guidelines from the Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, which Rico began and helped to develop.
In 1998, he was awarded the twelfth Menéndez Pelayo International Prize and, in 2004, the Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Research Prize.
Rico Manrique died in Barcelona on 27 April 2024, at the age of 81.