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GASPAR GIL POLO (?153o-1591)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLO (?153o-1591)  , See also:Spanish novelist and poet, was See also:born at See also:Valencia about 1530 . He is often confused with Gil See also:Polo, See also:professor of See also: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 romani (1615) and other legal See also:treatises, who pleaded before the See also:Cortes as See also:late as 1626 . A See also:notary by profession, Polo was attached to the treasurycommission which visited Valencia in 1571, became coadjutor to the See also:chief accountant in 1572, went on a See also:special See also:mission to See also: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 verses only two conventional, eulogistic sonnets and a See also:song survive . Polo finds a See also:place in the See also:history of the novel as the author of La See also:Diana enamorada, a continuation of See also:Monte-See also:mayor's Diana, and perhaps the most successful continuation ever written by another See also: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 himself "; the See also:hyperbole is not wholly, nor even mainly, ironical . The See also:book is one of the most agreeable of Spanish pastorals; interesting in incident, written in fluent See also:prose, and embellished with melodious poems, it was constantly reprinted, was imitated by Cervantes in the See also:Canto de Caliope, and was translated into See also:English, See also:French, See also:German and Latin . The English version of See also:Bartholomew See also:Young, published in 1598 but current in See also:manuscript fifteen years earlier, is said to have suggested the Felismena See also:episode in the Two Gentlemen of See also:Verona; the Latin version of Caspar See also:Barth, entitled Erotodidascalus (See also:Hanover, 1625), is a performance of uncommon merit. as well as a See also:bibliographical curiosity .

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