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CASTILLO SOLbRZANO, ALONSO DE (1584?-1647?), See also:

Spanish novelist and playwright, is stated to have been baptized at Tordesillas near See also:Valladolid on 1st See also:October 1584. Nothing is known of his youth, and he is next heard of at See also:Madrid in 1619 as a See also:man of See also:literary tastes. While in the service of the See also:marquis de Villar, he issued his first See also:work, Donaires del Parnaso (1624–1625), two volumes of humorous poems; his Tardes entretenidas (1625) and Jornadas alegres (1626) proved that he was a novelist by vocation. Shortly afterwards he joined the See also:household of the marquis da los Velez, See also:viceroy of See also:Valencia, and published in See also:quick See also:succession three See also:clever See also:picaresque novels: La Nina de los embustes, Teresa de See also:Manzanares (1634), See also:Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza (1637), and a continuation entitled La Garduna de Sevilla y Anzuelo de las balsas (1642). To these shrewd cynical stories he owes his reputation. He followed the marquis de los Velez in his disastrous See also:campaign in See also:Catalonia, and accompanied him to See also:Rome, where the defeated See also:general was sent as See also:ambassador. Castillo Sol6rzano's See also:death occurred (probably at See also:Palermo) before 1648, but the exact date is uncertain. His prolonged See also:absence from Madrid prevented him from See also:writing as copiously for the See also:stage as he would other-See also:wise have done; but he was popular as a playwright both at See also:home and abroad. His Marques del Cigarral and El Mayorazgo fcguron are the See also:sources respectively of See also:Scarron's See also:Don Jophet d'Armenie and L'Heritier ridicule. Among his numerous remaining See also:works may be mentioned Las Harpias en Madrid (1633), Fiestas del Jardin (1634), Los Alivios de Casandra (164o) and the See also:posthumous Quinta de See also:Laurel (1649); the witty observation of these books forms a singular contrast to the See also:prim devotion of his Sagrario de Valencia (1635). His versatility and graceful See also:style deserve the highest praise. (J.

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