Francisco Rico Manrique

Francisco Rico Manrique (born 28 April 1942, Barcelona) is a Spanish philologist.

The Most Excellent Francisco Rico Manrique
Rico Manrique in 2014
Born	Francisco Rico Manrique (1942-04-28) 28 April 1942 Barcelona, Spain
Seat p of the Real Academia Española
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 1987[lower-alpha 1]
Preceded by	Seat established

He was a student of José Manuel Blecua and Martín de Riquer. He is 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.[1][2]

Rico was elected to Seat p of the Real Academia Española on 13 March 1986, he took up his seat on 4 June 1987.[3]

He has edited many classics from the medieval period and the "Siglo de Oro", and has written numerous studies on medieval and renaissance literature. He has also edited the Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española (Nine volumes, with supplements).

He currently oversees 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.