Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (baptised 14 December 1559 – 2 March 1613) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Barbastro. He was educated at the universities of Huesca and Zaragoza, becoming secretary to Fernando de Gurrea y Aragón, 5th Duke de Villahermosa in 1585. He was appointed historiographer of Aragon in 1599, and in 1610 accompanied the count de Lemos to Naples, where he died in March 1613.[1]
His tragedies—Fills, Isabela and Alejandra—are said by Cervantes to have "filled all who heard them with admiration, delight and interest".[2] Filis is lost, and Isabela and Alejandra, which were not printed until 1772, are imitations of Seneca.[1]
Argensola's poems were published with those of his brother, Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, in 1634; they consist of translations from the Latin poets, and of original satires.[1] He translated and imitated Horace, and modelled his austere style on that of Luis de León. He and his brother (... 'come to reform the Castilian tongue', said Lope) stood for a Malherbe-like sobriety, soon swept aside by culteranismo.[citation needed]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 3 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Cervantes, Don Quixote, Vol.1 Ch. 48
References
[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Argensola, Lupercio Leonardo de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 457.
External links
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- Works by or about Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola at the Internet Archive
- Works by Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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