biography
| name: |
Alcalá Yáñez de Ribera, Jerónimo de
|
pronunciation:
[alkala]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1563–1632)
|
| biography:
| Writer, born in Segovia, NWC Spain. He studied medicine in Valencia and later practised in Segovia. The author of minor devotional works, such as Milagros de Nuestra Señora de la Fuencisia (1615) and Verdades para la vida cristiana (1632), he is best remembered for his picaresque novel Alonso, mozo de muchos amos (1624–6), known in later editions as El donado hablador. |
|
|
