biography
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González de Salas, José Antonio
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pronunciation:
[gonthahleth th
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| male
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| lived:
| (1585–1651)
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| biography:
| Humanist, born in Madrid, Spain. He composed commentaries on Pliny the Elder, Petronius, Pomponius Mela, and other classical authors, but is best remembered for his Neoclassical Nueva idea de la tragedia antigua ... (1633). Its effect was enhanced by the publication seven years earlier of the first recorded translation into Castilian of Aristotle's Poetics (1626), applauded in general terms by Salas. In the Nueva idea he translated from Seneca's Trojanae ; Quevedo greatly admired these versions and praised him in El Parnaso español, monte en dos cumbres dividido (1648). |
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