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Alemán, Mateo

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Alemán, Mateo (1547–post 1615)

Spanish novelist. He was the author of the popular picaresque novel Guzmán de Alfarache (1599). He also published a life of St Antonio of Padua (1604) and Ortografía castellana/Castilian Orthography (1609), a treatise on spelling.

He was born in Seville, the son of a Jewish prison doctor. He studied medicine in Salamanca and Alcalá, and emigrated to Mexico in 1608.



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