"Cloak and dagger" was a fighting style common by the time of the Renaissance involving a knife hidden beneath a cloak. The term later came into use as a metaphor, referring to situations involving in
Achille Marozzo's 16th century manual of arms illustration of the Dagger and Cloak
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is often conside
Portrait by Eugenio Caxés (c. 1627)
Lope's house in Madrid (1610–1635).
Sign at St Sebastian's Church, Madrid marking de Vega's burial
Lope de Vega dressed in cassock. (Madrid, 1902).