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