biography
| name: |
Medrano, Francisco de
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pronunciation:
[medrahnoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1569–1607)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Sevilla, SW Spain. Strongly influenced by Horace, he is perhaps the finest interpreter of the Latin poet in Castilian after Luis de León. He also imitated Tasso and Ariosto, and it is said that his art and importance ‘consisten precisamente en la imitación’, so that the work of identifying originals for his 34 odes and 52 sonnets continues. In 1584 he joined the Society of Jesus, but abandoned the ecclesiastical life in 1602 to retire to his farm, ‘Mirarbueno’, writing poetry and meditating. His work was partly published as pp.101–80 of the Remedios de amor by Pedro Venegas de Saavedra (1617). |
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