GASPAR GIL See also:

• POLO (Tibetan pulu, ball)
• GASPAR GIL POLO (?153o-1591)
• POLO, MARCO (c. 1254-1324)

POLO (?153o-1591)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish novelist and poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• VALENCIA
• VALENCIA, or VALENTIA

Valencia about 1530 . He is often confused with Gil See also:

• POLO (Tibetan pulu, ball)
• POLO, GASPAR GIL (?153o-1591)
• POLO, MARCO (c. 1254-1324)

Polo, See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek at Valencia University between 1566 and 1573; but this professor was not named Gaspar . He is also confused with his own son, Gaspar Gil Polo, the author of De origine et progressu See also:

• JURIS

juris romani (1615) and other legal See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, who pleaded before the See also:

• CORTES
• CORTES, HERNAN

Cortes as See also:

• LATE

late as 1626 . A See also:

• NOTARY, or NOTARY PUBLIC

notary by profession, Polo was attached to the treasurycommission which visited Valencia in 1571, became coadjutor to the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief accountant in 1572, went on a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• MISSION

mission to See also:

• BARCELONA

Barcelona in 158o, and died there in 1591 . Timoneda, in the Sarao de amor (156i), alludes to him as a poet of repute; but of his See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous verses only two conventional, eulogistic sonnets and a See also:

• SONG

song survive . Polo finds a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of the novel as the author of La See also:

• DIANA

Diana enamorada, a continuation of See also:

• MONTE

Monte-See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor's Diana, and perhaps the most successful continuation ever written by another See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand . Cervantes, punning on the writer's name, recommended that " the Diana enamorada should be guarded as carefully as though it were by See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo himself "; the See also:

• HYPERBOLE (from Gr. i'irep/3aX tew, to throw beyond)

hyperbole is not wholly, nor even mainly, ironical . The See also:

• BOOK

book is one of the most agreeable of Spanish pastorals; interesting in incident, written in fluent See also:

• PROSE

prose, and embellished with melodious poems, it was constantly reprinted, was imitated by Cervantes in the See also:

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

Canto de Caliope, and was translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English, See also:

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

French, See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German and Latin . The English version of See also:

• BARTHOLOMEW, JOHN (1831-1893)
• BARTHOLOMEW, SAINT

Bartholomew 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, published in 1598 but current in See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript fifteen years earlier, is said to have suggested the Felismena See also:

• EPISODE

episode in the Two Gentlemen of See also:

• VERONA
• VERONA, CONGRESS OF

Verona; the Latin version of Caspar See also:

• BARTH
• BARTH, HEINRICH (1821–1865)
• BARTH, KASPAR VON (1587-1658)

Barth, entitled Erotodidascalus (See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover, 1625), is a performance of uncommon merit. as well as a See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical curiosity .