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BOSCAN ALMOGAVER, JUAN (1490?1542)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 277 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOSCAN ALMOGAVER, JUAN (1490?1542) , Spanish poet, was born about the close of the 15th century. He was a Catalan of patrician
birth
 , and, after some years of military service, became tutor to the duke of Alva. His poems were published in 1543 at
Barcelona
  by his widow. They are divided into sections which mark the stages of Boscan's poetical
evolution
 . The first book contains poems in the old Castilian metres, written in his youth, before 1526, in which year he became acquainted with the Venetian
ambassador
 ,
Andrea
  Navagiero, who urged him to adopt Italian
measures
 , and this advice gave a new turn to Boscan's activity. The remaining books contain a number of pieces in the Italian manner, the longest of these being Hero y Leander, a poem in blank verse, based on
Musaeus
 . Boscan's best effort, the Octava Rima, is a skilful imitation of Petrarch and
Bembo
 . Boscan also published in 1534 an admirable
translation
  of Castiglione's Il Cortegiano. Italian
measures
  had been introduced into Spanish literature by Santillana and Villalpando; it is Boscan's distinction to have naturalized these forms definitively, and to have founded a poetic school.
The best edition of his poems is that issued at Madrid in 1875 by W. J. Knapp; for his indebtedness to earlier writers, see Francesco Flamini, Studi di storia literaria italiana e straniera (Livorno, 1895).


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