biography
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Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal
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pronunciation:
[kalvetay thay es<
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1526–93)
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| biography:
| Humanist, born in Sariñena, Huesca, NE Spain. He studied at Alcalá and waited on Prince Felipe (later Felipe II) as a courtier. His eye-witness account, Felicísimo viaje del príncipe don Felipe, hijo de Carlos V, a Alemania y a Flandes (1552), is noted for its absorbing, detailed description of a tournament offered to Charles V by the Queen of Hungary in 1549. It illustrates how deeply ingrained into the contemporary European imagination the feats of errantry of the libros de caballería had become. Other works include a poem on the life of Carlos V (1590), an encomium of the Duque de Alba in Latin, Túmulo imperial, adornado de historias ... (1559), and an account of the capture of a North African city, De Aphrodisio expugnato, quod vulgo Aphrica vocant (1551). |
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