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Herrera, Fernando de
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Herrera, Fernando de (c. 1534–1597)

Spanish poet. Admiring the Italian poets, he was largely responsible for introducing their metrical systems into Spain. His lyrical poetry, influenced by Petrarch, celebrates his platonic love for the countess of Gelves. Herrera's odes, especially those on the Battle of Lepanto and Don Juan of Austria, and his elegies on King Sebastian of Portugal and the English statesman Thomas More, are marked by grandeur, melody, and profundity.



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9780773454644 The Baroque poetry of Fernando de Herrera, 1534-1597; Decoro in the Spanish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Fernando de Herrera receives complete attention as a poet and as Garcilaso's commentator, who overwhelmed Garcilaso's delicate and limited corpus with his lengthy, complex Anotaciones of 1580, managing to do to Garcilaso what Garcilaso had done to Petrarch (displace his poetry) and substitute his model of the poet-soldier with that of the professional poet (Herrera himself).
 
 
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