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VILLEGAS, ESTEBAN MANUEL DE (1589-1669)

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VILLEGAS, ESTEBAN See also:MANUEL DE (1589-1669) , See also:Spanish poet, was See also:born at Matute (Logrono) on the 5th of See also:February 1589, matriculated at See also:Salamanca on the 2oth of See also:November 161o, and challenged See also:attention by the mingled arrogance and accomplishment of See also:Las ErOticas (1617), a collection of See also:clever See also:translations from See also:Horace and See also:Anacreon, and of See also:original poems, the See also:charm of which is marred by the writer's petulant vanity. Marrying in 1626 or earlier, Villegas practised See also:law at Najera till 1659, when he was charged with expressing unorthodox views on the subject of See also:free will; he was exiled for four years to See also:Santa Maria de Ribaredonda, but was allowed to return for three months to Najera in See also:March 166o. It seems probable that the See also:rest of the See also:sentence was remitted, for the See also:report of the See also:local See also:inquisition See also:lays stress on Villegas's See also:simple piety, on the extravagance of his attire, ridiculous in a. See also:man of his See also:age, and on the eccentricity of his generai conduct and conversation, so marked as to suggest " a See also:kind of See also:mania or See also:lesion of the See also:imagination." In his version of See also:Boetius (1665), Villegas showed that he had profited by his experience, for he made no See also:attempt to translate the last See also:book (in which the problem of free will is discussed), and reprinted the Latin See also:text without comment. He died at Najera on the 3rd of See also:September 1669. His tragedy El Hipolito, imitated from See also:Euripides, and a See also:series of See also:critical See also:dissertations entitled Variae Philologiae, finished in 1650, are unpublished; and " a book of satires," found among his papers by the inquisitors, was confiscated.

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