biography
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Medinilla, Baltasar Elisio
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pronunciation:
[medineea]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1585–1620)
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| biography:
| Poet and prose-writer, born in Toledo, C Spain. He was friend and disciple of Lope de Vega, whose La descripción de la Abadía, jardín del Duque de Alba, he imitated in Descripción de Buenavista, recreación en la vega de Toledo (1617), later amplified in a manuscript now in the National Library, Madrid. His most celebrated poem is a work of Marian piety in five cantos of octavas reales, the Limpia Concepción de la Virgen Nuestra Señora (1617). His Obras divinas survive in a manuscript in the National Library, and his prose work, of considerable local interest, is Discurso del remedio de las cosas de Toledo (1618). He was killed, in a brawl over a love affair, by Jerónimo de Andrada y Rivadeneyra. |
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