biography
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Liñán y Verdugo, Antonio de
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probable pseudonym of Fray Alonso Remón
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pronunciation:
[leenyan ee verth
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| lived:
| (fl.1620)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Vara del Rey, Cuenca, EC Spain. His best-known work is the Guía y Avisos de forasteros adonde se les enseña a huir de los peligros que ay en la vida de la Corte (1620), composed in the form of fourteen cautionary tales told by an old courtier and a graduate in arts and theology (Fray Alonso?) to a young man of quality. The stories are essentially picaresque in tradition, and while the society of Madrid and its foibles are satirized in the manner later to be exploited by Ramón de la Cruz and Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, the influence of Boccaccio is evident. |
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