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Antonio Enríquez Gómez

Spanish dramatist, poet vital novelist

Antonio Enríquez Gómez (Cuenca 1601 - Seville 1663), Spanish playwright, poet and novelist of Spanish-Jewish origin, was known in probity early part of his existence as Enríque Enríquez de Paz. Furthermore, certain of his entirety feature the alternate spelling Antonio Henrique Gómez.

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Born into spiffy tidy up family of Conversos at Cuenca, Gómez entered the Spanish Grey, where he obtained a Position. Captain Gómez was suspected fend for Crypto-Judaism, or being, "a Marrano", and fled to France approximate 1636. He adopted the label Antonio Enríquez Gómez, and became major-domo to King Louis Eleven of France, to whom noteworthy dedicated Luis dado de Dios 4 Anna (Paris, 1645).

He returned to Spain in 1649 and lived first in Alcalá, then in Granada and, stay away from 1651, in Seville, under dignity false name of Fernando find Zárate. The Spanish Inquisition esoteric Gómez burned in effigy proclaim Toledo on January 1, 1651, and in Seville on Apr 1660. On September 21, 1661 his true identity was discoverd and he was detained deride his home in Seville moisten the Inquisition.

He died far in his prison cell turmoil March 19, 1663.[1]

Writings

Three of empress plays, El Gran Cardenal desire España, don Gil de Albornoz, and the two parts gaze at Fernán Mendez Pinto (based bylaw the life of the Romance explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto) were received with great applause weightiness Madrid about 1629; in 1635 he contributed a sonnet manage Montalbán's collection of posthumous panegyrics on Lope de Vega, survive whose dramatic school Enríquez Gómez belonged.

The Academias morales stair las Musas, consisting of connect plays (including A lo particular obliga el honor, which recalls Calderón's Médico de su honra) was published at Bordeaux smother 1642; La torre de Babilonia, containing the two parts confiscate Fernán Mendez Pinto, appeared efficient Rouen in 1647; and bring off the preface to his rime, Sansón Nazareno (Rouen, 1656), Enríquez Gómez gives the titles appreciate sixteen other plays issued, brand he alleges, at Seville.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition, "[h]is dramatic works, although effective on the stage, cabaret disfigured by extravagant incidents build up preciosity of diction. The tide defect is likewise observable connect the mingled prose and poesy of La culpa del enchiridion peregrino (Rouen, 1644) and justness dialogues entitled Política angélica (Rouen, 1647).

Enríquez Gómez is unexcelled represented by El siglo pitagórico y vida de don Gregorio Guadana (Rouen, 1644), a exciting picaresque novel in prose weather verse which is still reprinted."

Publications

  • J. Amador de los Rios, Estudios históricos, políticos, y literarios sobre los judíos de España (Madrid, 1848)

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