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FERNANDO DE See also:HERRERA (c. 1534-1597)
, See also:Spanish lyrical poet, was See also:born at See also:Seville
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Although in See also:minor orders, he addressed many impassioned poems to the countess of Gelves, wife of Alvaro See also:Colon de See also:Portugal; but it is suggested that these should be regarded as Platonic See also:literary exercises in the manner of See also:Petrarch
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As is shown by his Anotaciones d See also:las obras de Garcilaso de la See also:Vega (1580), See also:Herrera had a boundless admiration for the See also:Italian poets, and continued the See also:work of Boscan in naturalizing the Italian metrical See also:system in See also:Spain
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His commentary on Garcilaso involved him in a See also:series of literary polemics, and his verbal innovations laid him open to attack
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But, even if his amatory sonnets are condemned as insincere in sentiment, their workmanship is admirable, while his odes on the See also:battle of See also:Lepanto, on See also:Don See also: |
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