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MANRIQUE, JORGE (1440?-1478)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 598 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MANRIQUE, JORGE (1440?-1478) , Spanish poet and soldier, was born probably at Paredes de Nava. The fourth son of Rodrigo Manrique,
count
  de Paredes, he became like the rest of his family a fervent partisan of Queen
Isabel
 , served with
great
  distinction in many engagements, and was made comendador of Montiz&n in the order of Santiago. He was killed in a skirmish near the fortress' of Garci-Mufloz in 1478, and was buried in the
church
  attached to the convent of tides. His love-songs, satires, and acrostic verses . are merely ingenious compositions in the
taste
  of his age; he owes his imperishable renown to a single poem, the Coplas per la muerte de su padre, an elegy of
forty
  stanzas on the death of his father, which was apparently first printed in the Cancionero llamade de Fray Ingo- de
Mendoza
  about the year 1482. There is no foundation for the theory that Manrique drew his
inspiration
  from an Arabic poem by Abu 'l-Baku Sslih ar-Rundi; the form of the Copies is influenced by the Consejos of his uncle,
Gomez
  Manrique, and the matter derives from the Bible, from Boethius and from other sources readily accessible. The
great
  sonorous common-places on death are vitalized by the intensely personal grief of the poet, who lent a new solemnity and significance to thoughts which had been for centuries the common property of mankind. It was given to Jorge Manrique to have one single moment of sublime expression, and this isolated achievement has won him a fame undimmed by any
change
  of
taste
  during four centuries.
The best edition of the Coplas is that issued by R. Foulche-Delbosc in the Bibliothece hispanica; the poem has been admirably translated by Longfellow. Manrique's other verses were mostly printed in Hernando del Castillo's Cancionero general (1511).


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