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See also: ALEMAN, MATEO (1549—1609?), See also:Spanish novelist and See also:man of letters, was born at See also:Seville in 1547 . He graduated at Seville University in 1564, studied later at See also:Salamanca and See also:Alcala, and from 1571 to 1588 held a See also:post in the See also:treasury; in 1594 he was arrested on suspicion of malversation, but was speedily released . In 1599 he published the first See also:part of Guzmdn de Alfarache, a celebrated See also:picaresque novel which passed through not less than sixteen See also:editions in five years; a See also:spurious sequel was issued in 1602, but the See also:authentic continuation did not appear till 1604 . In 16o8 Aleman emigrated to See also:America, and is said to have carried on business as a printer in See also:Mexico; his Ortografia castellana (1609), published in that See also:city, contains ingenious and See also:practical proposals for the reform of Spanish spelling . Nothing is recorded of Aleman after 1609, but it is sometimes asserted that he, was still living in 1617 . He married, unhappily, Catalina de Espinosa in 1571, and was constantly in See also:money difficulties, being imprisoned for See also:debt at Seville at the end of 16oa . He is the author of a See also:life (1604) of St Antony of See also:Padua, and versions of two odes of See also:Horace See also:bear See also:witness to his See also:taste and metrical accomplishment . His See also:chief See also:title to remembrance, however, is Guzman de Alfarache, which was translated into French in 1600, into See also:English in 1623 and into Latin in 1623 . See J . Hazaiias y la Rua, Discursos leidos en la Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas letras el 25 de marzo de 1802 (Sevilla, 1892); J . Gestoso y See also:Perez, Nuevos datos See also:para'ilustrar See also:las biografias del See also:Maestro Juan de Malara y de Mateo Aleman (Sevilla, 1896) . (J .
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