biography
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Silva, Feliciano de
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pronunciation:
[seelva]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1492?–1558?)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Ciudad Rodrigo, W Spain. He married the daughter of a Jewish converso despite the difficulties, recording this love-match in the poignant Sueño de Feliciano de Silva at the end of part I of Amadís de Grecia (1530), a work which is in the full tradition of the romances of chivalry and is one of the first to include pastoral elements, taking as its model the Arcadia (1504) of Sannazaro. In Silva's Segunda comedia de Celestina (1534), perhaps the most successful early imitation of the great Celestina, she is resuscitated. This second Celestina is far superior to his romances of chivalry, rightly mocked by Cervantes for their outlandish heroics and contorted style. They included La crónica de los muy valientes y enforçados e invencibles cavalleros Don Florisel de Niquea y el fuerte Anaxartes (Valladolid, 1532) in two parts; the Tercera parte ... (Medina del Campo, 1535); and the Quarta parte ... (Salamanca, 1567). |
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