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ANTONIO ENRIQUEZ GOMEZ (c. 16o1-c. 1661)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO ENRIQUEZ See also:GOMEZ (c. 16o1-c. 1661)  , See also:Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist of Portuguese-Jewish origin, was known in the See also:early See also:part of his career as Enrique Enriquez de Paz . See also:Born at See also:Segovia, he entered the See also:army, obtained a captaincy, was suspected of See also:heresy, fled to See also:France about 1636, assumed the name of See also:Antonio Enriquez See also:Gomez, and became majordomo to See also:Louis XIII., to whom he dedicated Luis See also:dodo de Dios ci See also:Anna (See also:Paris, 1645) . Some twelve years later he removed to See also:Amsterdam, avowed his See also:conversion to Judaism, and was burned in effigy at See also:Seville on the 14th of See also:April 1660 . He is supposed to have returned to France, and to have died there in the following See also:year . Three of his plays, El Gran Cardenal de Espana, See also:don Gil de See also:Albornoz, and the two parts of Fernan Mendez See also:Pinto were received with See also:great See also:applause at See also:Madrid about 1629; in 1635 he contributed a See also:sonnet to See also:Montalban's collection of See also:posthumous panegyrics on Lope de See also:Vega, to whose dramatic school Enriquez Gomez belonged . The Academias morales de See also:las Musas, consisting of four plays (including A lo que obliga el honor, which recalls See also:Calderon's Medico de su honra), was published at See also:Bordeaux in 1642; La Torre de Babilonia, containing the two parts of Fernan Mendez Pinto, appeared at See also:Rouen in 1647; and in the See also:preface to his poem, El See also:Samson Nazareno (Rouen, 1656), Enriquez Gomez gives the titles of sixteen other plays issued, as he alleges, at Seville . There is no See also:foundation for the theory that he wrote the plays ascribed to Fernando de Zarate . His dramatic See also:works, though effective on the See also:stage, are disfigured by extravagant incidents and preciosity of diction . The latter defect is likewise observable in the mingled See also:prose and See also:verse of La Culpa del primer peregrino (Rouen, 1644) and the dialogues entitled Politico See also:Angelica (Rouen, 1647) . Enriquez Gomez is best represented by El Siglo Pitagorico y See also:Vida de don Gregorio Guadana (Rouen, 1644), a striking See also:picaresque novel in prose and verse which is still reprinted .

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