Matador, Literary Folk Figure. A noted torero of the 1920s and 1930s, he is remembered as the patriarch of a bullfighting dynasty, but probably more for the literary immortality conferred upon him by Ernest Hemingway. Born Cayetano Ordonez y Aguilera, he was raised in Ronda by parents who ran a shoe shop called La Palma, thus his nickname. He took to his sport early and by 1917 was fighting in small local venues. He made his debut at Ronda in 1923 and over the next seasons, usually billed as "Nino de la Palma", was to experience major success in Seville, Madrid, and elsewhere. In the early days of career, Nino met the then up-and-coming Ernest Hemingway who used him as the model for Pedro Romero, taking the name from a great 18th century Spanish matador, in the 1926 classic "The Sun Also Rises". In the book Romero is depicted as a great young bullfighter who has an illicit romance with Lady Brett Ashley, the fictional counterpart of the equally unpleasant Lady Duff Twysden; how closely the tale followed the facts is unclear, as Papa wrote that "Everything that happened in the ring was true, everything outside was fiction". Despite his promising start, a cornada (horn wound) to the thigh suffered in his first major season apparently robbed him of his nerve, though not of his skills. Over the next years he retired and came back numerous times, fighting in venues large and small on both sides of the Atlantic, able to summon his old greatness only for high-paying appearances in Madrid. Nino was accorded a rather devastating portrayal by Papa in his 1932 non-fiction "Death in the Afternoon", called a "coward" capable of using his still-considerable ability to fool the crowds and kill the bulls in a relatively safe manner. He last fought as a matador at the Aranda de Duero on September 14, 1942, stayed in the ring in the lesser capacity of banderillero until around 1950, and for a time ran a bullfighting school in Lisbon. In 1957 he was portrayed by Robert Evans, with Ava Gardner as Lady Brett, in the film version of "The Sun Also Rises". His son Antonio became a distinguished torero who was written about by Hemingway in "Life" magazine articles which were turned into the posthumously-published "The Dangerous Summer" (1986). With the passage of years he suffered, as did Papa, from the ill effects of drink and hard living and by the time of his death was more-or-less disowned by his family save for small amounts of financial assistance. Today two of his great-grandsons continue the family business while he himself lives on in every bookstore and library on Earth.