biography
pronunciation:
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1586–c.1641)
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| biography:
| Fabulist, born in Valencia, E Spain. He belonged to a famous Valencian family which included a printer and the professor of Greek at Valencia University. His Fabulario de quentos antiguos y nuevos (c.1613) included 57 stories and fables, many of them translated from Phaedrus, Aesop, and Italian sources. The whole was edited by M Menéndez y Pelayo in his Orígenes de la novela. Volumes 4 and 8 of the stories appear in F C Saínz de Robles's compendium, Cuentos viejos de la vieja España (1949). |
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