LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE See also:

• LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA (1559-1613)

ARGENSOLA (1559-1613)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish dramatist and poet, was baptized at Barbastro on the 14th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1559 . He was educated at the See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

• HUESCA
• HUESCA (anc. Osca)

Huesca and See also:

• SARAGOSSA (Zaragoza)
• SARAGOSSA, COUNCILS OF (Concilia Caesarauguslana)

Saragossa, becoming secretary to the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke de Villahermosa in 1585 . He was appointed historiographer of See also:

• ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon)

Aragon in 1599, and in 16ro accompanied the See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count de Lemos to See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples, where he died in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1613 . His tragedies—Fills, Isabela and Alejandra—are said by Cervantes to have "filled all who heard them with admiration, delight and See also:

• INTEREST

interest "; Filis is lost, and Isabela and Alejandra, which were not printed till 1772, are ponderous imitations of See also:

• SENECA

Seneca . See also:

• ARGENSOLA, LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE (1559-1613)

Argensola's poems were published with those of his See also:

• BROTHER

brother in 1634; they consist of excellent See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations from the Latin poets, and of See also:

• ORIGINAL

original satires . His " echoing sonnets "—such as Despues que al mundo el rey divino vino—lend themselves to See also:

• PARODY (Gr. s-apybia, literally a song sung beside, a comic parallel)

parody; but his diction is singularly pure . His brother, BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA (1562-1631), Spanish poet and historian, was baptized at Barbastro on the 26th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1562, studied at Huesca, took orders, and was presented to the rectory of Villahermosa in 1588 . He was attached to the See also:

• SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita)

suite of the count de Lemos, See also:

• VICEROY (from O. Fr. viceroy, mod. viceroi, i.e. Lat. vice, in place of, and roy or roi, king)

viceroy of Naples, in 161o, and succeeded his brother as historiographer of Aragon in 1613 . He died at Saragossa on the 4th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1631 . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• WORKS

works are the Conquista de lets Islas Molucas (1609), and a supplement to Zurita's Anales de Aragon, which was published in 163o . His poems (1634), like those of his See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder brother, are admirably finished examples of pungent wit . His commentaries on contemporary events, and his Alteraciones populares, dealing with a Saragossa rising in 1591, are lost .

An interesting See also:

• LIFE

life of this writer by See also:

• FATHER

Father See also:

• MIGUEL, MARIA EVARIST (1802–1866)

Miguel Mir precedes a reprint of the Conquista de'See also:

• LAS

las Islas Molucas, issued at Saragossa in 1891 .