Mena, Juan de (c. 1411–1456)
| Spanish poet. A follower of the Italianate school of Iñigo López de Santillana, Dante's influence is also evident in the ideas, though not in the form, of his poems. Mena's chief work, El laberinto de fortuna, or Las trescientas, 1444, is a didactic allegory, visualizing and comparing past and present. |
| He was born in Córdoba and became secretary and historiographer to John II of Castile. |
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