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VILLAMEDIANA, COUNT DE (1582-1622)

VILLAMEDIANA, See also:
COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
COUNT DE (1582-1622) , See also:

SPANISH

Spanish poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon towards the end of 1582. His See also:

FATHER

father, a distinguished diplomatist, upon whom the dignity of count was conferred in 1603, entrusted the See also:

EDUCATION

education of the brilliant boy (Juan de Tassis y Peralta) to Luis Tribaldos de See also:

Toledo,73 the future editor of See also:

Mendoza's Guerras de See also:

Granada, and to Bartolome Jimenez Pat6n, who subsequently dedicated Mercurius Trismegistus to his See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil. On leaving See also:

Salamanca the youth married in 16o1, and succeeded to the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title on the See also:

DEATH

death of his father in 1607; he was prominent in the dissipated See also:

LIFE

life of the See also:

capital, acquired a See also:

BAD, BCD

bad reputation as a gambler, was forbidden to attend See also:

court, and resided in See also:

Italy from 1611 to 1617. On his return to See also:

Spain, he soon proved himself a fearless, pungent satirist. Such public men as See also:

LERMA, FRANCISCO DE SANDOVAL Y ROJAS, DUKE OF (1552–1625)

Lerma, Rodrigo Calder6n and Jorge de Tobar writhed beneath his murderous invective; the foibles of humbler private persons were exposed to public ridicule in verses furtively passed from See also:

hand to hand. So See also:

GREAT

great was the resentment caused by these envenomed attacks that Villamediana was once more ordered to withdraw from court in 1618. He returned on the death of See also:

Philip III. and was appointed See also:

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman in waiting to Philip IV.'s See also:

young wife, See also:

ISABEL

Isabel de See also:

Bourbon, daughter of See also:

HENRI

Henri IV. Secure in his position, he scattered his scathing epigrams in profusion; but his ostentatious attentions to the See also:

queen supplied his countless foes with a weapon which was destined to destroy him. A See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire See also:

broke out while his masque, La Gloria de Niguea, was being acted before the court on the 15th of May 1622, and Villamediana carried the queen to a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of safety. Suspicion deepened; Villamediana neglected a significant warning that his life was in peril, and on the 21st of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1622 he was murdered as he stepped out of his See also:

COACH (through the Fr. coche, originally from the Magyar kocsi, an adjective from the Hungarian place named Kocs, between Raab and Buda, i.e. the sort of vehicle used there in the 15th century)

coach. The responsibility for his death was divided between Philip IV. and See also:

OLIVARES, GASPAR DE GUZMAN

Olivares; the actual See also:

ASSASSIN (properly Hashish n, from Hashish, the opiate made from the juice of hemp leaves)

assassin was either Alonso Mateo or Ignacio Mendez; and naturally the See also:

CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime remained unpunished. Villamediana's See also:

WORKS

works, first published at See also:

Saragossa in 1629, contain not only the See also:

NERVOUS

nervous, blighting verses which made him widely feared and hated, but a number of more serious poems embodying the most exaggerated conceits of gongorism.

But, even when adopting the perverse conventions of the See also:

HOUR

hour, he remains a poet of high distinction, and his satirical verses, more perfect in See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, are See also:

INSTINCT

instinct with a See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold, concentrated scorn which has never been surpassed. (J.

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