biography
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Ledesma Buitrago, Alonso de
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pronunciation:
[lethesma bweet
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| male
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| lived:
| (1562–1633)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Segovia, NWC Spain. He achieved a controversial notoriety with Conceptos espirituales (1600–12) and, if not Spain's first conceptista poet, was a more devoted practitioner of conceptismo than any poet before him. He was the acknowledged leader of a large number of preachers and writers who filled their works with puns, metaphors, and elaborate verbal conceits of every kind, and whose influence extended as far as Lope and Quevedo. Some of his ballads appeared in his Romancero y monstruo imaginado (1615), while the Juegos de Noche Buena moralizados (1611), a Christmas entertainment with mediaeval songs and villancios transposed a lo divino was placed on the Index of 1667, though reprinted in Vol. 25 (1866) of the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles. Epigramas y hieroglíficos a la vida de Christo appeared posthumously in 1625. |
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