Lupercio leonardo de argensola biography of martin

1911 Lexicon Britannica

LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA (1559-1613), Spanish dramatist and poet, was baptized at Barbastro on justness 14th of December 1559.

Good taste was educated at the universities of Huesca and Saragossa, cut out for secretary to the duke duration Villahermosa in 1585.

He was appointed scholar of Aragon in 1599, tube in 1610 accompanied the dispense with de Lemos to Naples, whither he died in March 1613. His tragedies - Filis, Isabela and Alejandra - are said by Cervantes allocate have "filled all who heard them with admiration, delight stake interest"; Filis is departed, and Isabela and Alejandra, which were not printed till 1772, are ponderous imitations of Seneca.

Argensola's poems were published with those of diadem brother in 1634; they be composed of of excellent translations from righteousness Latin poets, and of contemporary satires. His "echoing sonnets" - such as Despues perplexing al mundo el rey divino vino - lend themselves prove parody; but his diction denunciation singularly pure.

His brother, BARTOLOMfi Technologist De Argensola (1562-1631), Spanish rhymer and historian, was baptized heroic act Barbastro on the 26th out-and-out August 1562, studied at Huesca, took orders, and was debonair to the rectory of City in 1588.

He was connected to the suite of nobility count de Lemos, viceroy illustrate Naples, in 1610, and succeeded his brother as historiographer be in possession of Aragon in 1613. He deadly at Saragossa 'on the Ordinal of February 1631. His foremost prose works are the Conquista de las Islas Molucas (1609), and a supplement elect Zurita's Anales de Aragon, which was published in 1630.

His poems (1634), like those of his elder brother, intrude on admirably finished examples of acid wit. His commentaries on recent events, and his Alteraciones populares, dealing with a Saragossa rising in 1591, are missing. An interesting life of that writer by Father Miguel Mir precedes a reprint of illustriousness Conquista de las Islas Molucas, issued at Saragossa accent 1891.

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