biography
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González, Diego Tadeo
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known as Fray Diego
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pronunciation:
[gonthahleth]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1733–94)
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| biography:
| Poet born in Ciudad Rodrigo, W Spain. Prior of the Augustinian convents of Salamanca, Pamplona, and Madrid, he held a tertulia (literary club) in his cell attended not only by his close friend and disciple Juan Fernández de Rojas (who luckily did not carry out his vow to burn Fray Diego's manuscripts on the latter's death) but also by the young Mélendez Valdés and Forner. His importance was in his influential rejection of the Baroque tradition and his return to the manner of his admired Fray Luis de León. Of his didactic work on Las edades, only Book 1 (La niñez) was published; no others are recorded as having been written. Some critics believe Fray Diego's best work to be a translation of the Eighth Psalm; others the Exposición de Job. The charming Llanto de Delio y profecía de Manzanares is at its best worthy of Luis de León. |
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