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BOSCAN ALMOGAVER, JUAN (1490?—1542)

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BOSCAN ALMOGAVER, JUAN (1490?—1542) , See also:

Spanish poet, was See also:born about the See also:close of the 15th See also:century. He was a Catalan of patrician See also:birth, and, after some years of military service, became See also:tutor to the See also:duke of See also:Alva. His poems were published in 1543 at See also:Barcelona by his widow. They are divided into sections which See also:mark the stages of Boscan's poetical See also:evolution. The first See also:book contains poems in the old Castilian metres, written in his youth, before 1526, in which See also:year he became acquainted with the Venetian See also:ambassador, See also:Andrea Navagiero, who urged him to adopt See also:Italian See also:measures, and this See also:advice gave a new turn to Boscan's activity. The remaining books contain a number of pieces in the Italian manner, the longest of these being See also:Hero y Leander, a poem in See also:blank See also:verse, based on See also:Musaeus. Boscan's best effort, the Octava Rima, is a skilful See also:imitation of See also:Petrarch and See also:Bembo. Boscan also published in 1534 an admirable See also:translation of See also:Castiglione's Il Cortegiano. Italian measures had been introduced into Spanish literature by See also:Santillana and Villalpando; it is Boscan's distinction to have naturalized these forms definitively, and to have founded a poetic school. The best edition of his poems is that issued at See also:Madrid in 1875 by W. J. Knapp; for his indebtedness to earlier writers, see See also:Francesco Flamini, Studi di storia literaria italiana e straniera (Livorno, 1895).

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