biography
pronunciation:
[berthayoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1180–c.1246)
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| biography:
| The earliest known Castilian poet, born in Berceo, N Spain. He became a deacon and wrote more than 13 000 verses on devotional subjects, of which the best is a Life of St Oria. His poems were not discovered and published until the late 18th-c. |
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