biography
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Rebolledo, Bernardino de
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pronunciation:
[rebolyaythoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1597–1676)
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| biography:
| Soldier and poet, born in León, NWC Spain, of aristocratic parentage. He served with distinction against the Turks and in the Thirty years' War, during which he was created Conde de Rebolledo. When peace was declared in 1647, he was appointed ambassador to Denmark (1648–62), and there he wrote the prose Discurso de la hermosura y el amor (Copenhagen, 1652), which Menéndez y Pelayo called ‘the swan-song of Platonism in Spain’, and the three Selvas: the didactic poem on the art and practice of war, Selva militar y política (Cologne, 1652); the attack on Protestantism, couched as a eulogy of the Danish royal family, Selvas dánicas (Copenhagen, 1655); and the Selva sagrada (1657), translating the Psalms and the Lamentations of Jeremiah. His poetry was exceptional for its time in taking no account of Gongorism. Ocios (Antwerp, 1650), was expanded into Obras poéticas in 3 vols, which includes his tragicomedy Amar despreciando riesgos and the Entremés de los maridos conformes. His poetry is unoriginal in general, and is modelled upon that of the Argensola brothers. |
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