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CASTILLO

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 476 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CASTILLO SOLbRZANO, ALONSO DE (1584?-1647?), Spanish novelist and playwright, is stated to have been baptized at Tordesillas near Valladolid on 1st October 1584. Nothing is known of his youth, and he is next heard of at Madrid in 1619 as a man of literary tastes. While in the service of the marquis de Villar, he issued his first
work
 , Donaires del Parnaso (16241625), two volumes of humorous poems; his Tardes entretenidas (1625) and Jornadas alegres (1626) proved that he was a novelist by vocation. Shortly afterwards he joined the
household
  of the marquis da los Velez, viceroy of Valencia, and published in
quick
  succession three clever picaresque novels: La Nina de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares (1634), Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza (1637), and a continuation entitled La Garduna de Sevilla y Anzuelo de las balsas (1642). To these shrewd cynical stories he owes his reputation. He followed the marquis de los Velez in his disastrous campaign in
Catalonia
 , and accompanied him to Rome, where the defeated general was sent as
ambassador
 . Castillo Sol6rzano's death occurred (probably at
Palermo
 ) before 1648, but the exact date is uncertain. His prolonged
absence
  from Madrid prevented him from writing as copiously for the stage as he would other-wise have done; but he was popular as a playwright both at
home
  and abroad. His Marques del Cigarral and El Mayorazgo fcguron are the sources respectively of
Scarron
 's Don Jophet d'Armenie and L'Heritier ridicule. Among his numerous remaining works may be mentioned Las Harpias en Madrid (1633), Fiestas del Jardin (1634), Los Alivios de Casandra (164o) and the posthumous Quinta de Laurel (1649); the witty observation of these books forms a singular contrast to the prim devotion of his Sagrario de Valencia (1635). His versatility and graceful style deserve the highest praise. (J. F.-K.)


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