Francisco Rico Manrique

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| birth_name = Francisco Rico Manrique

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|4|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|04|27|1942|04|28|df=y}}

| death_place = Barcelona, Spain

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| office = Seat p of the Real Academia Española

| term_start = 4 June 1987{{efn|Elected on 13 March 1986}}

| term_end = 26 April 2024

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Francisco Rico Manrique (28 April 1942 – 27 April 2024) 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/franciscorico/ |work=Cervantes Virtual |title=Francisco Rico |access-date=28 April 2024 |year=2008}}{{cite web |url=http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/892/francisco-rico |work=Lecturalia |title=Francisco Rico |access-date=28 April 2024}}

On 13 March 1986, he was elected to Seat p of the Real Academia Española. He took up his seat on 4 June 1987.{{cite web |url=http://www.rae.es/academicos/francisco-rico-manrique |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927032642/http://www.rae.es/academicos/francisco-rico-manrique |title=Francisco Rico Manrique |work=Real Academia Española |date= |archive-date=27 September 2015 |access-date=27 March 2016 |year=2013}}

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 (Nine volumes, with supplements).

Rico Manrique later oversaw the Classical Library series (started by Editorial Crítica and now a part of "Reader's Circle", a division of Bertelsmann) 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.larazon.es/cultura/muere-gran-filologo-academico-francisco-rico_20240427662d08318e66020001ba2d88.html |title=Muere Francisco Rico, el gran editor de «El Quijote» |language=es |first=Javier |last=Ors |date=27 April 2024 |access-date=28 April 2024 |newspaper=La Razón}}

Selected works

La novela picaresca y el punto de vista, Seix Barral (1970). English translation, The Picaresque Novel and the Point of View, Cambridge Univ. press, 1984.
Alfonso el Sabio y la "General Estoria", Ariel (1972)
Primera cuarentena y Tratado general de literatura, El Festín de Esopo (1982) {{ISBN|84-8570-427-4}}
Texto y contextos: Estudios sobre la poesía española del siglo XV, Grijalba Mondadori (1991) {{ISBN|84-7423-501-4}}
El sueño del humanismo Alianza (1993) {{ISBN|84-206-2754-2}}
Figuras con paisaje, Destino (1994) {{ISBN|84-233-4200-X}}
Los discursos del gusto, Destino (2003) {{ISBN|84-233-3573-9}}
Tiempos del "Quijote", Acantilado (2012) {{ISBN|84-15-68908-X}}