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FERNANDO DE HERRERA (c. 1534-1597)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERRERA (c. 1534-1597)  , See also:Spanish lyrical poet, was See also:born at See also:Seville . 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 . 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 . His commentary on Garcilaso involved him in a See also:series of literary polemics, and his verbal innovations laid him open to attack . 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:John of See also:Austria, and the See also:elegy on See also:King See also:Sebastian of Portugal entitle him to See also:rank as the greatest of Andalusian poets and as the most important of the followers of Garcilaso de la Vega (see VEGA) . His poems were published in 1582, and reprinted with additions in 1619; they are reissued in the Biblioteca de autores espanoles, vol. xxxii . Of Herrera's See also:prose See also:works only the See also:Vida y muerla de Tomas See also:Moro (1592) survives; it is a See also:translation of the See also:life in See also:Thomas Stapleton's Tres Thomae (1588) .

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