Luis Barahona de Soto (1548-1595) was a Spanish poet. Events Mary I of Scotland sent to France Births Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, occultist, and heretic, (burned at the stake) 1600 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. ... Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time May 24 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. ... Poets are authors of poems. ...

Born at Lucena (Cordoba), he was educated at Granada, and practised as a physician at Cordoba. His major work is the Primera parte de la Angélica (1586), a continuation of the Orlando furioso. The second part of the poem was long believed to be lost, but fragments of it have been identified in the anonymous Diálogos de la monteria, first printed in 1890; the Diálogos also embody fragments of a poem by Barahona entitled Los Principios del mundo, and many graceful lyrics by the same writer have been published by Francisco Rodríguez Marín. Lucena is a town in southern Spain, in the province of Córdoba, 60 km southeast of Córdoba, on the Madrid-Algeciras railway. ... The City of Granada Alhambra, Courtyard of the Lions Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in Spain. ... A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Córdoba most commonly means Córdoba, Spain, a famous city in Spain inhabited since the time of ancient Rome, and the seat of the Emir of Córdoba and the Caliph of Córdoba. ... Orlando Furioso is an epic poem written by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516. ...

Miguel de Cervantes describes Barahona as "one of the best poets not only in Spain, but in the whole world"; this is friendly hyperbole. Nevertheless Barahona has poetic imagination, ingenious fancy, and an exceptional mastery of the methods transplanted to Spain from Italy. His Angélica was been reproduced in facsimile (New York, 1904) by Archer M Huntington. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616), was a Spanish author, best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. ...

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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.