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ENRIQUEZ GOMEZ, ANTONIO (c. 16o1-c. 1661)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 652 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ENRIQUEZ GOMEZ, ANTONIO (c. 16o1-c. 1661) , Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist of Portuguese-Jewish origin, was known in the early
part
  of his career as Enrique Enriquez de Paz. Born at
Segovia
 , he entered the army, obtained a captaincy, was suspected of heresy, fled to France about 1636, assumed the name of Antonio Enriquez
Gomez
 , and became majordomo to Louis XIII., to whom he dedicated Luis dodo de Dios ci Anna (Paris, 1645). Some twelve years later he removed to
Amsterdam
 , avowed his conversion to Judaism, and was burned in effigy at
Seville
  on the 14th of April 1660. He is supposed to have returned to France, and to have died there in the following year. Three of his plays, El Gran Cardenal de Espana, don Gil de Albornoz, and the two parts of Fernan Mendez Pinto were received with
great
  applause at Madrid about 1629; in 1635 he contributed a
sonnet
  to Montalban's collection of posthumous panegyrics on Lope de Vega, to whose dramatic school Enriquez
Gomez
  belonged. The Academias morales de las Musas, consisting of four plays (including A lo que obliga el honor, which recalls Calderon's Medico de su honra), was published at Bordeaux in 1642; La Torre de Babilonia, containing the two parts of Fernan Mendez Pinto, appeared at Rouen in 1647; and in the
preface
  to his poem, El Samson Nazareno (Rouen, 1656), Enriquez Gomez gives the titles of sixteen other plays issued, as he alleges, at
Seville
 . There is no foundation for the theory that he wrote the plays ascribed to Fernando de Zarate. His dramatic works, though effective on the stage, are disfigured by extravagant incidents and preciosity of diction. The latter defect is likewise observable in the mingled
prose
  and verse of La Culpa del primer peregrino (Rouen, 1644) and the dialogues entitled Politico Angelica (Rouen, 1647). Enriquez Gomez is best represented by El Siglo Pitagorico y Vida de don Gregorio Guadana (Rouen, 1644), a striking picaresque novel in
prose
  and verse which is still reprinted.


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