biography
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Verdugo Castilla, Alfonso, Conde de Torrepalma
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pronunciation:
[vairdoogoh kastee
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| male
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| lived:
| (1706–67)
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| biography:
| Poet and diplomat, born in Alcalá la Real, Jaén, S Spain. He was a member of the Real Academia Española, the Real Academia de la Historia, and the Academia del Buen Gusto, where he was known as ‘el Difícil’. Most of his lyric poetry is lost, as is La libertad del pueblo de Israel por Moisés, but it it possible to judge his frigid academicism from the mythological poem El Deucalión (1770. ‘El juicio final’ is one of the poems in Vol 61 (1869) of the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles. More impressive are his ballads ‘Al incendio de Roma por Nerón’ and ‘A César mirando la cabeza de Pompeyo’. ‘El diluvio’, a long poem on the Flood, uses his favourite themes of death and melancholy. |
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