biography
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Padilla, Juan de
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also known as el Cartujano
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pronunciation:
[padeelya]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1468–c.1522)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Sevilla, SW Spain. A monk of the Charterhouse of S María de las Cuevas in Sevilla, his poem in 150 coplas, ‘El laberinto del duque de Cádiz ...’ (1493), is now lost, but two major works have survived. The first is ‘Retable del Cartuxo sobre la vida de Nuestro Redentor Jesu Christo’ (1505), which he states having completed in 1500. This popular poem appeared anonymously, but Padilla gave away his identity in an acrostic near the end. In 1518 he finished his most significant poem, ‘Los doze triumphos de los doze apóstoles’ (1521), an allegory in the style of Dante consisting of 1000 stanzas of nine lines each in versos de arte mayor. |
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