George Santayana (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
George Santayana (sant-uh-YAHN-uh), whose fame derives from his role as an urbane and skeptical philosopher endowed with an excellent literary style, was born of nominally Catholic parents, Augustín Ruiz de Santayana and Josefine Borráis. He was christened Jorge Augustín Nicholas Ruiz de Santayana y Borráis. Until he was nine years of age, he knew no English, for his parents, although well-educated in the arts, spoke Spanish in the home. In 1872 Santayana’s mother returned to the United States to fulfill an agreement with her former husband, George Sturgis, to educate the three...
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