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• VICENTE, GIL (147o-1540)

VICENTE MARTINEZ See also:

• VICENTE MARTINEZ ESPINEL (1551-1624)

ESPINEL (1551-1624)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish poet and novelist, was baptized on the 28th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1551, and educated at See also:

• SALAMANCA
• SALAMANCA (anc. Salmantica or Elmantica)

Salamanca . He was expelled from the university in 1572, and served as a soldier in See also:

• FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders, returning to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in 1584 or thereabouts . He took orders in 1587, and four years later became See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain at See also:

• RONDA

Ronda, absented himself from his living, and was deprived of his cure; but his musical skill obtained for him the See also:

• POST

post of choirmaster at See also:

• PLASENCIA

Plasencia . His Diversas Rimas (1591) are undeniably See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good examples of technical accomplishment and See also:

• CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic wit . See also:

• ESPINEL, VICENTE MARTINEZ (1551-1624)

Espinel, however, survives as the author of a See also:

• CLEVER

clever See also:

• PICARESQUE

picaresque novel entitled Relaciones de la See also:

• VIDA, MARCO GIROLAMO (c. 1489-1566)

vida del Escudero Marcos de ObregOn (1618) . It is, in many passages, an autobiography of Espinel with picturesque embeIlishments . Marcos is not a chivalresque " See also:

• ESQUIRE (0. Fr. escuyer, Mod. Fr. ecuyer, derived through the form escudier from Med. Lat. scutarius, " shield-bearer ")

esquire," but an adventurer who seeks his See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune by attaching himself to See also:

• GREAT

great men; and the See also:

• OBJECT

object of the author is to warn See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young men against such a See also:

• LIFE

life . Apart from the unedifying confessions of the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero, the See also:

• BOOK

book contains curious anecdotes concerning prominent contemporaries, and the episodical stories are told with great spirit; the See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is extremely correct, though somewhat diffuse . Le See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage has not scrupled to See also:

• BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (18o3-1881)

borrow from Marcos de Obregdn many of the incidents and characters in Gil Blas—a circumstance which induced See also:

• ISLA, JOSE FRANCISCO DE (1703-1781)

Isla to give to his Spanish See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of Le Sage's See also:

• WORK

work the jesting See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title, Gil Blas restored to his See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country and his Native See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

Tongue . In the 1775 edition of the Siecle de See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XI V . See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire grossly exaggerates in saying that Gil Blas is taken entirely from Marcos de Obregon . Espinel was a clever musician and added a fifth See also:

• STRING

string to the See also:

• GUITAR (Fr. guitarre, Ger. Guitarre, Ital. chitarra, Span. guitarra)

guitar .

He revived the measure known as decimas or espinelas, consisting of a See also:

• STANZA (Low Lat. stantia, Ital. stantia or stanza)

stanza of ten octosyllabic lines . Most of the poems which he See also:

• LEFT

left in See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript remain unpublished owing to their licentious See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character .