biography
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Nasarre y Férriz, Blas Antonio
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pronunciation:
[nasaray ee ferith
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1689–1751)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Alquezar, Huesca, NE Spain. Professor of law at Zaragoza University, then royal librarian, and prominent member of the Academia del Buen Gusto and the Real Academia Española which supported the neoclassical views of Luzán against the drama nacional of Lope and his school, he is remembered in Spanish literary history for two notorious judgments. In his reissue of Avellaneda's Don Quijote (1732), he stated in his introduction, signed Isidro Perales y Torres, that it was equal to the genuine Part II of Cervantes. He also reprinted the Comedias y entremeses of Miguel de Cervantes (1749) on the grounds that, as the worst plays ever written, they parodied the unnatural excesses of Lope's drama (which Cervantes had in fact ridiculed). His prologue, entitled Disertación sobre las comedias de España, was answered by José Carrillo in the pamphlet La sinrazón impugnada y beata de lavapies (1750) and by Tomás de Zabaleta (Marqués de la Olmeda) in his Discurso crítico sobre el origen, calidad y estado presente de las comedias de España (1750). His one uncontroversial contribution to scholarship was his publication of the Biblioteca universal de la polygraphía española (1738) of Cristóbal Rodríguez. |
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