Heinrich Heine DONNA CLARA AND ALMANSOR (Burning Books Castle Alcolea)1892 Print
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| Management number | 4117919 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $28.50 | Model Number | 4117919 | ||
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Heinrich Heine DONNA CLARA AND ALMANSOR (Burning Books Castle Alcolea)
This is an illustration / print that has been taken from a book dated 1892 and is ready for framing. Measures approximately 11 1/2 x 9 inches. There is an image text summary on the attached rice paper.
Heine’s aphorism appears in one of his earliest works, Almansor, a play written during 1820–1821 and published in 1823, when he was only 26. It takes place in Granada, after the Andalusian city had been conquered by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. The title character is a young Muslim who fled the city before its occupation by the Christians and has now clandestinely returned to try to rescue his beloved Zuleika, who has been forcibly converted to Catholicism and is now called Donna Clara. He meets with the remnants of the Muslim population in the city, who tell him about the atrocities perpetrated by the conquerors: killings, forced conversions, the introduction of the Inquisition. His friend Hassan laments how ma
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