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Pérez de Montalbán, Juan

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Juan Pérez de Montalbán Madrid 1602 Madrid 1638 M P1025

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela guitar guitarra Cleric Ecclesiastical Church Author Author - poet, playwright

Years active Place active Century Region
Madrid 17cent Castilla
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Juan Pérez de Montalbán (1602 – 25 June 1638) was a Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist.
Biography
He was born at Madrid. At the age of eighteen, he became a licentiate in theology. He was ordained priest in 1625, and appointed notary to the Inquisition. In 1619 he began writing for the stage under the guidance of Lope de Vega, who is said to have assisted him in composing El Orfeo en lengua castellana (1624), a poem obviously intended to compete with Jáuregui's Orfeo, published earlier in the same year.
Montalbán's father, a publisher at Madrid, issued a pirated edition of Quevedo's Buscón, which roused an angry controversy. The violence of these polemics, the strain of overwork, and the death of Lope de Vega so affected Montalbán that he became insane; he died at Madrid on 25 June 1638. His last work was a eulogistic biography of Lope de Vega in the Fama póstuma (1636).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pérez_de_Montalbán acc. 23/05/14

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1624 Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Sucesos y prodigios de amor en ocho novelas ejemplares.
1632 Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Para todos, ejemplos morales, humanos y divinos...


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