biography
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Trillo y Figeroa, Francisco de
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pronunciation:
[treelyoh ee feehay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1620?–1675)
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| biography:
| Poet and historian, born in La Coruña, NW Spain. He left Galicia at the age of 11, and thenceforth spent most of his life in Granada, except for 1640–3, when he was fighting in Italy and Flanders. He wrote a feeble epic in the culterano style called Neapolisea: poema heroyco, y panegírico al Gran Capitán, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (Granada, 1651), but he is at his best in the light, humorous, and occasionally obscene verses, including many letrillas and romances, collected as Poesías varias, heroycas, satíricas y amorosas (Granada, 1652) deriving most frequently from Góngora, but also employing deftly and ironically the thieves' cant of the time, known as germanía (from hermano, hermandad, ‘brother’, ‘brotherhood’). This collection includes fine translations from Anacreon. As a historian, Trillo published nothing in his lifetime but left a number of manuscripts, one of which, a history of La Coruña, is kept in the British Library. The rest include Historia y antigüedades del reino de Galicia, Blasones y cruces de la nobleza de España, Historia política del Rey Católico and Epítome de la historia del rey Enrique IV de Francia. |
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