Alfonso X

[ al-fon-soh, -zoh; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw ]

noun

1. Alfonso the Wise, 1221–84, king of Castile 1252–84.

Example Sentences

As the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes explained in “The Buried Mirror,” his book about the Hispanic world, 13th-century Spanish King Alfonso X assembled a cosmopolitan brain trust of Jewish intellectuals, Arab translators and Christian troubadours, who promoted Spanish as a language of knowledge at a time Latin and Arabic still held prestige on the Iberian Peninsula.

From Seattle Times

As the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes explained in “The Buried Mirror,” his book about the Hispanic world, the 13th-century Spanish king Alfonso X assembled a cosmopolitan brain trust of Jewish intellectuals, Arab translators and Christian troubadours, who promoted Spanish as a language of knowledge at a time when Latin and Arabic still held prestige on the Iberian Peninsula.

From New York Times

St. Louis, and Alfonso X. He gives a r�sum� of the events which influenced modern history, and ends by saying, "My labors would be completed by la Divina Commedia, the greatest monument of a period, of which it may be called an abridgment, and of which it is the glory."

From Project Gutenberg

The legend of Charlemagne as told in the Cr�nica general of Alfonso X. created the desire for a national hero distinguished for his exploits against the Moors, and Roland was thus supplanted by Bernardo del Carpio.

From Project Gutenberg

Astronomers under the patronage of Alfonso X of Leon and Castile published in 1252 the Alfonsine Tables, which superseded the Toledan tables and were accepted everywhere throughout Europe.

From Project Gutenberg