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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Artificial intelligence uncovers lost work by titan of Spain’s ‘Golden Age’

The original manuscript of La francesa Laura
The original manuscript of La francesa Laura that artificial intelligence attributes to the Spanish classical author Lope de Vega at the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters

Lost or misattributed works by some of the finest writers of Spain’s Golden Age could be discovered thanks to pioneering AI technology that has been used to identify a previously unknown play by the wildly prolific dramatist, poet, sailor and priest Lope de Vega.

This week Spain’s National Library announced that researchers trawling its massive archive had stumbled upon and verified a play that Lope is believed to have written a few years before his death in 1635.

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