biography
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Mendoza Monteagudo, Juan de
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pronunciation:
[mendohtha montayagoo<
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| male
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| lived:
| (1575–c.1660)
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| biography:
| Spanish poet, soldier, and adventurer. When aged 15 he left for the New World and, after wandering through several countries, enlisted under Francisco de Quiñones in Chile in 1599. The verse chronicle he composed, Las Guerras de Chile (1610), has been edited by J Medina (Santiago de Chile, 1888). As poetry it is negligible, but it provides a valuable picture of Chilean life and society at the turn of the 17th-c. Its 8000 lines are divided into 11 cantos. |
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