biography
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Hurtado de Toledo, Luis
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pronunciation:
[oortahthoh th<
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| male
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| lived:
| (1523–90)
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| biography:
| Playwright and parish priest of San Vicente, Toledo, born in Toledo, C Spain. Although both works were attributed to him, it has been established with fair certainty that he is the writer of neither the Palmerín de Inglaterra (now assigned to the Portuguese Francisco de Morães, 1500–72) nor the Tragedia Policiana, the best imitation of La Celestina, proved now to be the work of Sebastián Fernández. He did write the pastoral Égloga Silviana, printed in Valladolid with the second, undated edition of the Comedia Tibalda begun by Perálvare de Ayllón and completed by Hurtado. He also finished a play by Micael de Carvajal, Las Cortes de la Muerte (1557), one of the best danses macabres ever written in Spain. Hurtado has been credited with the authorship of a Memorial de algunas cosas notables que tiene la ciudad de Toledo (1576) and a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1578). |
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