Aguirre

Aguirre is a surname of Basque origin (spelled in current Basque orthography as Agirre) as well as a place name, found primarily in the Basque region of north-central Spain and southwestern France. Its definition is debatable. The most accepted definition is prominence in old Basque. This word may refer to:

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Aguirre is a surname of Basque origin. Lope de Aguirre was one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas. Based on "the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000 censuses," HowManyofMe.com estimates in mid-2013 that 68,990 people bear the surname Aguirre in the United States, making the name statistically the country's 508th most common surname.

Aguirre (soundtrack)

Aguirre is the seventh album by German band Popol Vuh. It contains music used in the soundtrack to Werner Herzog's film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), first released as an album in 1975 on Ohr, and reissued in 2004 by SPV with one bonus track. This score was the first of many filmic collaborations between the group and Herzog. Only two tracks ("Aguirre I" and "Aguirre II") are from the film; the rest were gathered from various recordings done by the group during the period 1972–74, including alternative versions of two songs ("Morgengruß II" and "Agnus Dei") originally released on the band's 1974 album, Einsjäger und Siebenjäger.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Florian Fricke except track number 2 composed by Daniel Fichelscher.

Personnel

Quepos (canton)

Quepos is the sixth canton in the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica. The cantón covers an area of 543.77 km², and has a population of 29,569. Its capital city is Quepos, also known as Puerto Quepos.

It was named Aguirre until February 2015, when its name was changed following a vote in the Legislative Assembly. The name "Quepos" refers to the Quepoa people who inhabited this area in pre-Columbian and colonial times.

Geography

The county lies along the central Pacific coast between the mouths of the Río Damas and Río Barú. The northeastern border runs through high, remote coastal mountain ranges. The county is most famous for being the home of the Manuel Antonio National Park, the most visited national park in Costa Rica.

The cantón of Quepos is subdivided into 3 distritos (districts):

History

The "cantón" (county) was created by a decree of October 30, 1948.

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Coordinates: 9°25′19″N 84°09′36″W / 9.421968°N 84.16008°W / 9.421968; -84.16008

Vitaliano di Iacopo Vitaliani

Vitaliano di Iacopo Vitaliani was a Paduan nobleman who lived in the late 13th century around the time of Giotto and Dante. He is best known for being a wicked usurer according to Dante in the Divine Comedy.

Place in Dante's Inferno

In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Dante says that he saw Vitaliano in the inner ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell, where the violent are eternally punished. The inner ring of the Seventh Circle is a burning hot desert with a continual rain of fire. The usurers are to be found sitting on the sand, swatting away fire the way that animals swat bugs, and crying. Vitaliano is the only usurious sinner to be named. However, around the necks of the other usurious sinners are found purses emblazoned with their family coat of arms. This, and a bit of research into Dante's time-period, make it possible to identify who the suffering sinners are meant to be.

Usurers are considered violent because, as Dante's Virgil explains in Canto XI, usurers sin against Art, and Art is the Grandchild of God.