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ESPINEL, VICENTE MARTINEZ (1551-1624)

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ESPINEL, See also:VICENTE MARTINEZ (1551-1624) , See also:Spanish poet and novelist, was baptized on the 28th of See also:December 1551, and educated at See also:Salamanca. He was expelled from the university in 1572, and served as a soldier in See also:Flanders, returning to See also:Spain in 1584 or thereabouts. He took orders in 1587, and four years later became See also:chaplain at See also:Ronda, absented himself from his living, and was deprived of his cure; but his musical skill obtained for him the See also:post of choirmaster at See also:Plasencia. His Diversas Rimas (1591) are undeniably See also:good examples of technical accomplishment and See also:caustic wit. Espinel, however, survives as the author of a See also:clever See also:picaresque novel entitled Relaciones de la See also:vida del Escudero Marcos de ObregOn (1618). It is, in many passages, an autobiography of Espinel with picturesque embeIlishments. Marcos is not a chivalresque " See also:esquire," but an adventurer who seeks his See also:fortune by attaching himself to See also:great men; and the See also:object of the author is to warn See also:young men against such a See also:life. Apart from the unedifying confessions of the See also:hero, the See also:book contains curious anecdotes concerning prominent contemporaries, and the episodical stories are told with great spirit; the See also:style is extremely correct, though somewhat diffuse. Le See also:Sage has not scrupled to See also:borrow from Marcos de Obregdn many of the incidents and characters in Gil Blas—a circumstance which induced See also:Isla to give to his Spanish See also:translation of Le Sage's See also:work the jesting See also:title, Gil Blas restored to his See also:Country and his Native See also:Tongue. In the 1775 edition of the Siecle de See also:Louis XI V. See also:Voltaire grossly exaggerates in saying that Gil Blas is taken entirely from Marcos de Obregon. Espinel was a clever musician and added a fifth See also:string to the See also:guitar.

He revived the measure known as decimas or espinelas, consisting of a See also:

stanza of ten octosyllabic lines. Most of the poems which he See also:left in See also:manuscript remain unpublished owing to their licentious See also:character.

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