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ANTONIO ENRIQUEZ See also: Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist of Portuguese-Jewish origin, was known in the early See also: part of his career as Enrique Enriquez de Paz
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See also: Born at See also: Segovia, he entered the army, obtained a captaincy, was suspected of See also: heresy, fled to See also: France about 1636, assumed the name of Antonio Enriquez See also: Gomez, and became majordomo to See also: Louis XIII., to whom he dedicated Luis dodo de Dios ci Anna (
See also: Paris, 1645)
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Some twelve years later he removed to See also: Amsterdam, avowed his conversion to Judaism, and was burned in effigy at Seville on the 14th of See also: April 1660
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He is supposed to have returned to France, and to have died there in the following See also: year
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Three of his plays, El Gran Cardenal de Espana, See also: don Gil de See also: Albornoz, and the two parts of Fernan Mendez Pinto were received with See also: great applause at See also: Madrid about 1629; in 1635 he contributed a sonnet to See also: Montalban's collection of See also: posthumous panegyrics on Lope de Vega, to whose dramatic school Enriquez Gomez belonged
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The Academias morales de See also: las Musas, consisting of four plays (including A lo que obliga el honor, which recalls 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 preface to his poem, El Samson Nazareno (Rouen, 1656), Enriquez Gomez gives the titles of sixteen other plays issued, as he alleges, at Seville
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There is no foundation for the theory that he wrote the plays ascribed to Fernando de Zarate
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His dramatic See also: works, though effective on the stage, are disfigured by extravagant incidents and preciosity of diction
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The latter defect is likewise observable in the mingled See also: prose and verse of La Culpa del primer peregrino (Rouen, 1644) and the dialogues entitled Politico See also: Angelica (Rouen, 1647)
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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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I have published "Samson Nazareno" from a rare "original" copy I had acquired from Argentina some 12 years ago; and am now preparing a copy of his "La Torre de Babilonia" {1680}.
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