biography
pronunciation:
[montoroh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1404–80?)
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| biography:
| Satirical poet, born in Montoro, Córdoba, S Spain. He converted to Christianity under stress, yet retained his pride in his race, unlike Rodrigo Cota of Toledo, whom he attacked for being ashamed of his Jewish ancestry. Though a protégé of Mena and Santillana, Montoro remained a tailor and secondhand clothes-dealer, lamenting his poverty in poetic jousts with Juan Agraz, El Comendador Román, and the Jewish converso Juan Poeta of Valladolid. In 1473 he fled from the anti-Jewish riots of Córdoba to Sevilla, where he settled for the rest of his life. The Cancionero, edited by E Cotarelo y Mori (1900), shows how he chose to reject the Italianate allegorical innovations fashionable in his day, retaining popular metres for his witty but often coarse invective. The Cancionero de obras de burlas provocantes a risa (1519) includes two works attributed to him. |
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