GARCILASO DE LA See also:VEGA (1503-1536)
, See also:Spanish soldier and poet, was See also:born at See also:Toledo on the 6th of See also:February 1503
.
His See also:father, Garcilaso (Garcias Laso or Garcilaaso) de la See also:Vega, was counsellor of See also:state to See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella, and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time their See also:ambassador at the See also:court of See also:Rome; by his See also:mother he was descended from the illustrious See also:house of Guzman
.
At the See also:age of seventeen he was attached to the bodyguard of See also:Charles V., and fought against the insurgent eomuneros, being wounded at the See also:battle of Olias near Toledo
.
He afterwards served in the See also:north of See also:Italy, and gained See also:great distinction by his bravery at the battle of See also:Pavia in 1525
.
In the following See also:year he married a See also:lady-in-waiting to See also:Queen Eleanor
.
He took See also:part in the repulse of the See also:Turks from See also:Vienna in 1529, was See also:present, at the See also:coronation of the See also:emperor at See also:Bologna in 1530, and was charged with a See also:secret See also:mission to See also:Paris in the autumn of the same year
.
In 1J31 he accompanied the See also:duke of See also:Alva to Vienna, where, for conniving at the clandestine See also:marriage of his See also:nephew to a maid-of-See also:honour, he was imprisoned on an See also:island in the See also:Danube
.
During this captivity he composed the See also:fine canciofl, " See also:Con un manso ruido de agua corriente y See also:clara." Relcas and restored to favour in See also:June 1532, he went to See also:Naples on t See also:staff of See also:Don Pedro de Toledo, the newly appointed vicero)See also:Ill by whom he was twice sent on public business of importance to See also:Barcelona, in 1533 and 1534• After having accompanied the emperor on the expedition to See also:Tunis (1535), where he received two severe wounds, he was employed as a confidential See also:agent at See also:Milan and See also:Genoa in negotiations connected with the proposed invasion of See also:Provence, and joined the expedition when it took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field
.
Being with Charles in the neighbourhood of See also:Frejus during the See also:retreat from See also:Marseilles, Garcilaso de la Vega was ordered to See also:storm a fort at Muy, which had checked the advance of the See also:army
.
In the successful See also:discharge of this See also:duty he was mortally wounded and died twenty-one days afterwards, at See also:Nice (,24th of See also:October 1536)
.
His poems were entrusted to his friend Boscan, who was preparing them for publication along with his own when See also:death overtook him in 1540
.
The See also:volume ultimately appeared at Barcelona in 1543, and has often been 'reprinted
.
Garcilaso's See also:share in it consists principally of three eglogas or pastorals, which the Spaniards regard as among the finest See also:works of the See also:kind in their See also:language, and which for sweetness of versification and delicacy of expression take a high See also:rank in See also:modern See also:European literature
.
In addition to the pastorals, there are See also:thirty-seven sonnets, five canciones, two elegies and a See also:blank See also:verse See also:epistle, all influenced by See also:Italian See also:models
.
The poems rapidly gained a wide popularity; and within a See also:century of their See also:appearance they were edited as See also:classics by Francisco See also:Sanchez (1577), See also:Herrera (1580) and Tamayo de Vargas (1622)
.
An See also:English See also:translation of his works was published by Wiffen in 1823
.
Garcilaso's delicate See also:charm has survived all changes of See also:taste, and by universal consent he ranks among the most accomplished and See also:artistic of Spanish poets
.
See E
.
See also:Fernandez de See also:Navarrete, " See also:Vida de Garcilaso de la Vega," in
the Documentos ineditos See also:Para la historia de Espana, vol. xvi
.
;See also:Francesco Flamini, " Imitazioni italiani in Garcilaso de la Vega,'' in theBiblioteca delte scugle italiane (Milano 1899)
.
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