biography
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Rufo y Gutiérrez, Juan
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pronunciation:
[roofoh ee gootyay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1547?–1625?)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer of maxims, born in Córdoba, S Spain. He studied at Salamanca University. The son of a dyer, he was persistently in debt throughout his life, because of gambling, until he inherited his father's business and himself turned dyer. Rufo fought against the invasion in 1568. La Austriada (1584) is an epic poem, somewhat overpraised by Cervantes, on Don Juan of Austria. The first 18 cantos of the 24 are a rhymed version of La guerra de Granada by Hurtado de Mendoza. Rufo's principal work is Los seyscientos Apotegmas... Y otras obras en verso (Toledo, 1596). These witty maxims influenced not only his son Luis (1581-1653), who published a further anthology Los quinientos apotegmas, but also Fray Juan de la Cerda, Fray Tomás de Llamazares, and Baltasar Porreño. |
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