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CESPEDES 'Y MENESES, GONZALO DE (1585 ?—1638), See also:

Spanish novelist, was See also:born at See also:Madrid about 1585. Nothing See also:positive is known of him before the publication of his celebrated See also:romance, the Poema trdgico del Espanol Gerardo, y desengano del amor lascivo (1615–1617); there is See also:evidence that he had been sentenced to eight years at the galleys previous to the 1st of See also:January 162o, and that the See also:penalty had been remitted; but the nature of his offence is not stated. His treatment of See also:political questions in the Historia apologetica en los sucesos del reyno de See also:Aragon, y su See also:ciudad de Zaragoza, ages de 91 y 92 (1622), having led to the See also:confiscation of the See also:book, Cespedes took up his See also:residence at See also:Saragossa and See also:Lisbon. While in See also:exile he issued a collection of See also:short stories entitled Historias peregrinas y exemplares'(1623), the unfinished romance See also:Varia See also:fortuna del sold See also:ado Pindaro (1626), and the first See also:part of his Historia de Felipe IV. (1631), a fulsome eulogy which was rewarded by the author's See also:appointment as See also:official historiographer to the Spanish See also:king. Cespedes died on the 27th of January 1638. His novels, though written in a ponderous, affected See also:style, display considerable See also:imagination and insight into See also:character. The Poema trdgico has been utilized by See also:Fletcher in The Spanish See also:Curate and in The Maid of the See also:Mill. The Historias peregrinas has been reprinted (1906) with a valuable introduction by Sr. Cotarelo y Mod.

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