biography
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Mártir Rizo, Juan Pablo
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pronunciation:
[mah(r)teer reetho
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| male
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| lived:
| (1593–1642)
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| biography:
| Priest and literary controversialist, born in Madrid, Spain, who claimed to be a grandson of Pedro Mártir de Angleria. His main fame is that of literary opponent to Lope de Vega, against whom he wrote the lost Spongia in collaboration with Torres Rámila. His own poetry, and translations from the Latin and French, are forgotten, but his prose works were well received: Historia de la vida de Lucio Annaeo Séneca (1626), Norte de príncipes (1626), Defensa de la verdad que escribió don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1628), Historia de Cuenca (1629), and Historia trágica de la vida y muerte del duque de Virón (1629), on which Pérez de Montalbán based his play El mariscal de Virón. |
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