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MENA, JUAN DE (14111456) , Spanish poet, was born at Cordova in 1411. In his twenty-fourth year he matriculated at the university of Salamanca, and studied later at Rome. His scholarship obtained for him the post of Latin secretary at the court of Castille; subsequently he became historiographer to John II. and magistrate at C6rdova. According to the Epicedio of Valerio Francisco Romero, Mena died from natural causes in 1456; popular tradition, however, ascribes his death to a fall from his mule. Though nominally the king's chronicler, Mena had no share in the Cr6nica de Don Juan II.; the statement that he wrote the first act of the Celestina
prose
Homer ), and in the unpublished Memorias de algunos linajes antiguas a nobles de Castilla. He is conjectured to be the author of the satirical Coplas de la panadera; but, apart from the fact that these verses are ascribed by Argote de Molina to Inigo Ortiz de Zuiiiga,, they are instinct with a tart humour of which Mena was destitute. His principal work
century. The poem, as a whole, is tedious; yet its dignified expression of patriotic spirit has won the admiration of Spaniards from Cervantes' time to our own. A critical edition of the Laberinto has been issued by R. Foulche-Delbosc (Macon
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