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See also:CASTILLEJO, CRISTOBAL DE (1490-1556) , See also:Spanish poet, was See also:born at See also:Ciudad Rodrigo in 1490. In 1518 he See also:left See also:Spain with See also:Ferdinand of See also:Austria, afterwards See also:emperor, whose private secretary he eventually became. While residing at See also:Vienna in 1528–1530 he wrote the Historia de Piramo y Tisbe, and dedicated it to See also:Anna von Schaumberg, with whom he had a platonic love-affair. He seems to have visited See also:Venice, to have beenneglected by his See also:patron, to have fallen See also:ill in 1540, and to have passed his last years in poverty. He died on the 12th of See also:June 1556, and was buried at Vienna. Castillejo's poems are interesting, not merely because of their See also:intrinsic excellence, but also as being the most powerful protest against the metrical innovations imported from See also:Italy by Boscan and Garcilaso de la See also:Vega. He adheres to the native quintillas or to the coplas de See also:pie quebrado, and only abandons these traditional forms when he indulges in See also:caustic See also:parody of the new school—as in the lines Contra los que dejan los metros castellanos. He excels by virtue of his charming simplicity and his ingenious wit, always keen, sometimes licentious, never brutal. The urbane gaiety of his occasional poems is delightfully spontaneous, and the cynical See also:humour which informs the Dialogo de See also:las condiciones de las mujeres and the Dialogo de la See also:vida de la come is impregnated with the See also:Renaissance spirit. Castillejo is the See also:Clement See also:Marot of Spain. His plays are lost; the best See also:text of his verses is that printed at See also:Madrid in 1792.
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