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CESPEDES 'Y MENESES, GONZALO DE (1585 ?—1638), See also: Spanish novelist, was See also: born at See also: Madrid about 1585
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Nothing See also: positive is known of him before the publication of his celebrated See also: romance, the Poema trdgico del Espanol Gerardo, y desengano del amor lascivo (1615–1617); there is evidence that he had been sentenced to eight years at the galleys previous to the 1st of See also: January 162o, and that the See also: penalty had been remitted; but the nature of his offence is not stated
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His treatment of See also: political questions in the Historia apologetica en los sucesos del reyno de See also: Aragon, y su See also: ciudad de Zaragoza, ages de 91 y 92 (1622), having led to the confiscation of the See also: book, Cespedes took up his residence at Saragossa and See also: Lisbon
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While in exile he issued a collection of See also: short stories entitled Historias peregrinas y exemplares'(1623), the unfinished romance See also: Varia See also: fortuna del sold See also: ado Pindaro (1626), and the first See also: part of his Historia de Felipe IV
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(1631), a fulsome eulogy which was rewarded by the author's See also: appointment as official historiographer to the Spanish See also: king
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Cespedes died on the 27th of January 1638
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His novels, though written in a ponderous, affected
See also: style, display considerable See also: imagination and insight into character
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The Poema trdgico has been utilized by See also: Fletcher in The Spanish Curate and in The Maid of the See also: Mill
.
The Historias peregrinas has been reprinted (1906) with a valuable introduction by Sr
.
Cotarelo y Mod
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