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The titular figure of Federico García Lorca’s elegy “Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías” was

Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was a Spanish matador and writer whose fatal goring occasioned Lorca’s elegy. He was not Che Guevara’s associate, a Civil War spy or a priest. The…

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The titular figure of Federico García Lorca’s elegy “Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías” was

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Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was a Spanish matador and writer whose fatal goring occasioned Lorca’s elegy. He was not Che Guevara’s associate, a Civil War spy or a priest. The first two alternatives also place him within revolutionary scenarios unrelated to the bullfighter’s commemoration.

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