ANTONIO DE

See also:

• ANTONIO DE SOLIS (1610-16S6)

SOLIS (1610-16S6)  , Spanish dramatist and historian, was born in 1610 at Alcala de Henares (less probably, Plasencia), and studied law at Salamanca, where he produced a comedy entitled Amon y obligacion, which was acted in 1627 . He became secretary to the count of Oropesa, and in 1654 he was appointed secretary of state as well as private secretary to Philip IV . Later he obtained the lucrative post of chronicler of the Indies, and, on taking orders in 16671 severed his connexion with the stage . He died at Madrid on the 19th of April 1686 . Of his ten extant plays, two have some place in the history of the drama . El Antor al use was adapted by Scarron and again by Thomas Corneille as L'Amour d la mode, while La Gitanilla de Madrid, itself founded on the novela of Cervantes, has been . utilized directly or indirectly by P . A . Wolff, Victor Hugo and Longfellow . The titles of the remaining seven are Triunfos de amor y fortuna, Euridice y Orfeo, El Alcetzar del secrete, Las Amazonas, El Doctor Carline, Utz Bobo pace ciento, and Amparar el enemigo . Amor y obligaci6n survives in a manuscript at the Biblioteca Nacional . The Historia de la conquista de Mijico, covering the three years between the appointment of Cortes to command the invading force and the fall of the city, deservedly ranks as a Spanish prose classic . It was published in 1684; an English translation by Townshend appeared in 1724 .