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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Modesto Lafuente (1806–1866)

Lafuente, Modesto (lä-fwen’tā). A Spanish historian; born at Rabanel de los Caballeros, 1806; died there, Oct. 25, 1866. Under the pseudonym “Fray Gerundio” he published a series of satirical sketches which had wide circulation; but his principal work is a ‘General History of Spain’ (30 vols., 1850–66).