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• MONTEMAYOR (or MONTEMOR), JORGE (1520?-156x)

MONTEMAYOR (or MONTEMOR), JORGE (1520?-156x)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish novelist and poet, of Portuguese descent, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1520 at Montemor o Velho (near See also:

• COIMBRA

Coimbra), whence he derived his name, the Spanish See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of which is See also:

• MONTEMAYOR (or MONTEMOR), JORGE (1520?-156x)

Montemayor . He seems to have studied See also:

• MUSIC

music in his youth, and to have gone to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in 1543 as chorister in the See also:

• SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita)

suite of the Portuguese Infanta Maria, first wife of See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip II . In 1552 he went back to See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal in the suite of the Infanta Juana, wife of D . Joao, and on the See also:

• DEATH

death of this See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince in 1554 returned to Spain . He is said to have served in the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, to have accompanied Philip II. to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1555, and to have travelled in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and the See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low Countries; but it is certain that his poetical See also:

• WORKS

works were published at See also:

• ANTWERP
• ANTWERP (Fr. Anvers)

Antwerp in 1554, and again in 1558 . His reputation is based on a See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• WORK

work, the See also:

• DIANA

Diana, a See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral See also:

• ROMANCE

romance published about 1559 . Shortly afterwards Montemayor was killed in See also:

• PIEDMONT (Ital. Piemonte; Low Lat. Pedemons and Pedemontium)

Piedmont, apparently in a love affair; a See also:

• LATE

late edition of the Diana gives the exact date of his death as the 26th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1561 . The Diana is generally stated to have been printed at See also:

• VALENCIA
• VALENCIA, or VALENTIA

Valencia in 1542; but, as the See also:

• CANTO (from the Lat. cantus, a song)

Canto de Orfeo refers to the widowhood of the Infanta Juana in 1554, the See also:

• BOOK

book must be of later date . It is important as the first pastoral novel published in Spain; as the starting-point of a universal See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion; and as the indirect source, through the See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation included in See also:

• GOOGE, BARNABE (1540-1594)

Googe's Eglogs, epytaphes and sonnets (1563), of an See also:

• EPISODE

episode in the Two Gentlemen of See also:

• VERONA
• VERONA, CONGRESS OF

Verona . Though Portuguese was Montemayor's native See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, he only used it for two songs and a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short prose passage in the See also:

• SIXTH

sixth book of the Diana . His mastery of Spanish is amazing, and even Cervantes, who See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges the verses in the Diana with unaccustomed severity, recognizes the remarkable merit of Montemayor's prose See also:

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

style . That he pleased his own See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation is proved by the •seventeen See also:

• EDITIONS

editions and two continuations of the Diana published in the '16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, by parodies, imitations and renderings in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and See also:

• ENGLISH

English .