Pedro Romero
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Pedro Romero Martínez was a legendary bullfighter
Bullfighting
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 from the Romero family in Ronda
Ronda
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, Spain
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. His grandfather Francisco is credited with advancing the art of using the muletilla; his father and two brothers were also toreros. As a child he participated in two bullfights in Algeciras
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, he fought in Seville in 1772 and in Madrid, with his father and Costillares
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, in 1775. In the following year he killed 285 brave bulls, establishing his reputation. He allegedly slew 5558 bull
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s before retiring in 1799, all without a scar on his body. However, he was equally famous for being the first matador to view his job as an art form rather than just a display of courage. After retiring, Romero was appointed the head of a bullfighting school in Seville
Seville
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, where he offered his knowledge to matadors-in-training. At the age of eighty, a crowd looked on as he allegedly killed numerous bulls in a bullring in Madrid, probably the last bullfight he ever participated in.

A beautiful bullfighter named Pedro Romero is named in the Ernest Hemmingway novel 'Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises' in which he is seduced by the main character Jake Barnes love interest Lady Brett Ashley. It is believed that he named the character after Pedro Romero Martínez

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