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JAUREGUI Y AGUILAR, JUAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAUREGUI Y See also:AGUILAR, JUAN MARTiNEZ DE (1583-1641), See also:Spanish poet, was baptized at See also:Seville on the 24th of See also:November 1583. In due course he studied at See also:Rome, returning to See also:Spain shortly before 1610 with a See also:double reputation as a painter and a poet. A reference in the See also:preface to the Novelas exemplares has been taken to mean that he painted the portrait of Cervantes, who, in the second See also:part of See also:Don Quixote, praises the See also:translation of See also:Tasso's Aminta published at Rome in 1607. Jauregui's Rimas (1618), a collection of graceful lyrics, is preceded by a controversial preface which attracted much See also:attention on See also:account of its outspoken See also:declaration against culteranismo. Through the See also:influence of See also:Olivares, he was appointed See also:groom of the chamber to See also:Philip IV., and gave an elaborate exposition of his See also:artistic doctrines in the Discurso poet See also:ice contra el hablar culto y oscuro (1624), a skilful attack on the new theories, which procured for its author the See also:order of Calatrava. It is See also:plain, however, that the See also:shock of controversy had shaken Jauregui's convictions, and his poem Orfeo (1624) is visibly influenced by G6ngora. Jauregui died at See also:Madrid on the 1.1th of See also:January 1641, leaving behind him a translation of the Pharsalia which was not published till 1684. This rendering. reveals Jauregui as a See also:complete convert to the new school, and it has been argued that, exaggerating the See also:affinities between See also:Lucan and Gongora—both of Cordovan descent—he deliberately translated the thought of the earlier poet into the vocabulary of the later See also:master. This is possible; but it is at least as likely that Jauregui unconsciously yielded to the current of popular See also:taste, with no other intention than that of conciliating the public of his own See also:day.

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