Lope de Vega, the enamoradizo 'Fénix de los ingenios'

November 25, 2019 at 13:51 hrs.


Lope de Vega, the enamoradizo 'Fénix de los ingenios'


Felix Lope de Vega and Carpio He was one of the most important figures in the history of the Spanish literature.

Poet and notable playwright in the Golden age. Perhaps one of his greatest feats was to renew the , of his time, in which his main themes were love and honor.

Although there were also flashes of social issues, such as the abuse that the nobles exercised in different ways and that at that time was a constant. So the complaint is present in one way or another.

He is also recognized as outstanding of the baroque expressions in the dramas of which he was the author.

Curious to know, he was dubbed as "Phoenix of the mills". Even today it is remembered and commented, as well as its pieces edited again and again.

The enamored and banished

 

He is born November 25th 1562 In Madrid, at the age of five he was already a fluent reader in Latin and Spanish.

While at twelve he would start writing his first comedies.

His love life was intense, many women fell surrendered to their charms.

This brought the writer more turbulence than pleasures. Because writings dedicated to his ungrateful love, he was banished eight years from the court and two from the kingdom of Castile.

He enters the priesthood in a strong existential crisis, but this does not prevent him from continuing his long list of conquests.

At 25, he was already considered a famous writer, even though his private life was against the morality of his time.

He cultivated different literary genres such as poetry, novel and epic.

One of the best known passages in his professional life was that he had an important rivalry with Cervantes.

The 27 of August of 1635 dies, but not before leaving an important legacy for international literature.

 

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