LUIS BARAHONA DE

SOTO (1535?-1595)  , Spanish poet, was born about 1535 at Lucena (Cordova), was educated at Granada, and practised as a physician at Cordova . His principal poem is the Primera parte de la Angelica (1586), a continuation of the Orlando furioso; the second part was long believed to be lost, but fragments of it have been identified in the anonymous Didlogos de la monteria, first printed in 1890; the Didlogos also embody fragments of a poem by Barahona entitled Los Principios del mundo, and many graceful lyrics by the same writer have been published by Francisco Rodriguez Marin . Cervantes describes Barahona as " one of the best poets not only in Spain, but in the 'whole world "; this is friendly hyperbole . Nevertheless Barahona has high merits: poetic imagination, ingenious fancy, and an exceptional mastery of the methods transplanted to Spain from Italy . His Angelica has been reproduced in facsimile (New York, 1904) by Archer M . Huntington . See F . Rodriguez Maria, Luis Barahona de Soto, estudio biogrdfico, bibliografico, y critico (Madrid, 19o3); Didlogos de la monteria; edited by F . R. de Uhag6n (Madrid, 1890) . (J .