Escultura de Cayetano Ordoñez, Torero, Ronda, Málaga, Andalucía.Cayetano Ordóñez y Aguilera (1904-19
Escultura de Cayetano Ordoñez, Torero, Ronda, Málaga, Andalucía.Cayetano Ordóñez y Aguilera (1904-1961). In 1917 he first began to perform as a bullfighter in the ranches of the area where he lived. In 1923 he had his debut in Ronda, where he became the first bullfighter to be carried in triumph through the main gates of the Maestranza, and in 1924 he caused great commotion again when the same thing happened in Seville. From that point on he was greatly in demand by all the professional and amateur rings in Spain. He was used by Ernest Hemingway as the model for “Pedro Romero”, the talented young bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway later stated that “everything that happened in the ring was true, and everything outside was fiction. Nino knew this and never complained about it.” He was the patriarch of a famous family as his sons also became bullfighters. Wikipedia -- source link
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