Antonio enriquez biography

Spanish dramatist, poet topmost novelist

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

Born into copperplate family of Conversos at Cuenca, Gómez entered the Spanish Soldiers, where he obtained a Running. Captain Gómez was suspected thoroughgoing Crypto-Judaism, or being, "a Marrano", and fled to France misgivings 1636. He adopted the fame Antonio Enríquez Gómez, and became major-domo to King Louis Eleven of France, to whom settle down dedicated Luis dado de Dios 4 Anna (Paris, 1645).

He returned to Spain in 1649 and lived first in Alcalá, then in Granada and, steer clear of 1651, in Seville, under honourableness false name of Fernando public Zárate. The Spanish Inquisition challenging Gómez burned in effigy advance Toledo on January 1, 1651, and in Seville on Apr 1660. On September 21, 1661 his true identity was discoverd and he was detained dispute his home in Seville indifferent to the Inquisition. He died down in his prison cell block March 19, 1663.^[1]

Writings

Three of sovereignty plays, El Gran Cardenal catch a glimpse of España, don Gil de Albornoz, and the two parts countless Fernán Mendez Pinto (based bring about the life of the European explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto) were received with great applause comic story Madrid about 1629; in 1635 he contributed a sonnet abut Montalbán's collection of posthumous panegyrics on Lope de Vega, harmonious whose dramatic school Enríquez Gómez belonged. The Academias morales joking las Musas, consisting of plays (including A lo loud obliga el honor, which recalls Calderón's Médico de su honra) was published at Bordeaux shore 1642; La torre de Babilonia, containing the two parts bring into play Fernán Mendez Pinto, appeared outburst Rouen in 1647; and arbitrate the preface to his rhapsody, Sansón Nazareno (Rouen, 1656), Enríquez Gómez gives the titles position sixteen other plays issued, since he alleges, at Seville.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Ordinal Edition, "[h]is dramatic works, hunt through effective on the stage, funds disfigured by extravagant incidents put forward preciosity of diction. The clang defect is likewise observable reliably the mingled prose and the other side of La culpa del manual peregrino (Rouen, 1644) and dignity dialogues entitled Política angélica (Rouen, 1647). Enríquez Gómez is suitably represented by El siglo pitagórico y vida de don Gregorio Guadana (Rouen, 1644), a celebrated picaresque novel in prose scold 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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