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ARGENSOLA, LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE (1559-1613) , See also:Spanish dramatist and poet, was baptized at Barbastro on the 14th of See also:December 1559. He was educated at the See also:universities of See also:Huesca and See also:Saragossa, becoming secretary to the See also:duke de Villahermosa in 1585. He was appointed historiographer of See also:Aragon in 1599, and in 16ro accompanied the See also:count de Lemos to See also:Naples, where he died in See also:March 1613. His tragedies—Fills, Isabela and Alejandra—are said by Cervantes to have "filled all who heard them with admiration, delight and See also:interest "; Filis is lost, and Isabela and Alejandra, which were not printed till 1772, are ponderous imitations of See also:Seneca. Argensola's poems were published with those of his See also:brother in 1634; they consist of excellent See also:translations from the Latin poets, and of See also:original satires. His " echoing sonnets "—such as Despues que al mundo el rey divino vino—lend themselves to See also:parody; but his diction is singularly pure. His brother, BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA (1562-1631), Spanish poet and historian, was baptized at Barbastro on the 26th of See also:August 1562, studied at Huesca, took orders, and was presented to the rectory of Villahermosa in 1588. He was attached to the See also:suite of the count de Lemos, See also:viceroy of Naples, in 161o, and succeeded his brother as historiographer of Aragon in 1613. He died at Saragossa on the 4th of See also:February 1631. His See also:principal See also:prose See also:works are the Conquista de lets Islas Molucas (1609), and a supplement to Zurita's Anales de Aragon, which was published in 163o. His poems (1634), like those of his See also:elder brother, are admirably finished examples of pungent wit. His commentaries on contemporary events, and his Alteraciones populares, dealing with a Saragossa rising in 1591, are lost.

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life of this writer by See also:Father See also:Miguel Mir precedes a reprint of the Conquista de'See also:las Islas Molucas, issued at Saragossa in 1891.

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