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See also:VICENTE MARTINEZ See also:ESPINEL (1551-1624)
, See also:Spanish poet and novelist, was baptized on the 28th of See also:December 1551, and educated at See also:Salamanca
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He was expelled from the university in 1572, and served as a soldier in See also:Flanders, returning to See also:Spain in 1584 or thereabouts
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He took orders in 1587, and four years later became See also:chaplain at See also:Ronda, absented himself from his living, and was deprived of his cure; but his musical skill obtained for him the See also:post of choirmaster at See also:Plasencia
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His Diversas Rimas (1591) are undeniably See also:good examples of technical accomplishment and See also:caustic wit
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See also:Espinel, however, survives as the author of a See also:clever See also:picaresque novel entitled Relaciones de la See also:vida del Escudero Marcos de ObregOn (1618)
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It is, in many passages, an autobiography of Espinel with picturesque embeIlishments
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Marcos is not a chivalresque " See also:esquire," but an adventurer who seeks his See also:fortune by attaching himself to See also:great men; and the See also:object of the author is to warn See also:young men against such a See also:life
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Apart from the unedifying confessions of the See also:hero, the See also:book contains curious anecdotes concerning prominent contemporaries, and the episodical stories are told with great spirit; the See also:style is extremely correct, though somewhat diffuse
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Le See also:Sage has not scrupled to See also:borrow from Marcos de Obregdn many of the incidents and characters in Gil Blas—a circumstance which induced See also:Isla to give to his Spanish See also:translation of Le Sage's See also:work the jesting See also:title, Gil Blas restored to his See also:Country and his Native See also:Tongue
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In the 1775 edition of the Siecle de See also: He revived the measure known as decimas or espinelas, consisting of a See also:stanza of ten octosyllabic lines . Most of the poems which he See also:left in See also:manuscript remain unpublished owing to their licentious See also:character . |
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