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Encyclopedia Britannica



CESPEDES

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 768 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CESPEDES 'Y MENESES, GONZALO DE (1585 ?1638), Spanish novelist, was born at Madrid about 1585. Nothing positive is known of him before the publication of his celebrated romance, the Poema trdgico del Espanol Gerardo, y desengano del amor lascivo (16151617); there is evidence that he had been sentenced to eight years at the galleys previous to the 1st of January 162o, and that the
penalty
  had been remitted; but the nature of his offence is not stated. His treatment of political questions in the Historia apologetica en los sucesos del reyno de Aragon, y su ciudad de Zaragoza, ages de 91 y 92 (1622), having led to the
confiscation
  of the book, Cespedes took up his residence at
Saragossa
  and
Lisbon
 . While in
exile
  he issued a collection of short stories entitled Historias peregrinas y exemplares'(1623), the unfinished romance Varia fortuna del sold ado Pindaro (1626), and the first
part
  of his Historia de Felipe IV. (1631), a fulsome eulogy which was rewarded by the author's appointment as official historiographer to the Spanish king. Cespedes died on the 27th of January 1638. His novels, though written in a ponderous, affected style, display considerable
imagination
  and insight into
character
 . The Poema trdgico has been utilized by Fletcher in The Spanish
Curate
  and in The Maid of the Mill.
The Historias peregrinas has been reprinted (1906) with a valuable introduction by Sr. Cotarelo y Mod.


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