Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo
Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo (c. 158010 July 1635) was a Spanish novelist and playwright, born in Madrid, and educated in Alcalá de Henares and Valladolid. His first work, La Patrona de Madrid restituida (1609), is a devout poem, which forms a prelude to La Hija de Celestina (1612), a transcription of picaresque scenes reprinted under the title of La Ingeniosa Elena.
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Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo
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- 1581 · Madrid.
- Died
- 1635 · Madrid.
- Nationality
- Spain
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- dramaturge · poet · writer
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- Spanish Golden Age
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- Spanish
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Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo (c. 158010 July 1635) was a Spanish novelist and playwright, born in Madrid, and educated in Alcalá de Henares and Valladolid. His first work, La Patrona de Madrid restituida (1609), is a devout poem, which forms a prelude to La Hija de Celestina (1612), a transcription of picaresque scenes reprinted under the title of La Ingeniosa Elena.
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Born at Madrid in 1581, died in Madrid in 1635.
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![Fleuron from book: The lucky idiot: or, fools have fortune. Verified in the life of D. Pedro de Cenudo, whose follies had generally a prosperous event:... Written in Spanish by Don Quevedo de Alcala. Now rendred [sic] into modern English by a person of quality. Illustrated with pictures.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/The_lucky_idiot-_or%2C_fools_have_fortune_Fleuron_N019089-8.png/800px-The_lucky_idiot-_or%2C_fools_have_fortune_Fleuron_N019089-8.png)
Fleuron from book: The lucky idiot: or, fools have fortune. Verified in the life of D. Pedro de Cenudo, whose follies had generally a prosperous event:... Written in Spanish by Don Quevedo de Alcala. Now rendred [sic] into modern English by a person of quality. Illustrated with pictures.
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- 1.Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera y Leirado, Catálogo bibliográfico... London: Tamesis books, 1969, p. 352.
- 2.La mejor biografía de Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo continúa siendo la de Emilio Cotarelo y Mori en su edición de Obras de Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo; con la vida y obras del autor... Madrid: Revista de Archivos, 1907-1909, 2 vols. https://books.google.es/books?id=ZIYSAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22tratado+po%C3%A9tico+de+la+esfera%22+barbadillo&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s
- 3."Después pasé a las riberas del Henares, donde el sutil estudio de la filosofía me ocupó dos años"
- 4.Jaime Moll, " Análisis editorial de las obras de Salas Barbadillo" en Isabel Lozano-Renieblas y Juan Carlos Mercado (coords.), Silva: Studia philologica in honorem Isaías Lerner, Madrid, Castalia, [2001], pp. 471-477
- 5.Cervantes escribió en su Viaje del Parnaso que se inclinaba a él y le apreciaba sin medida.
- 6.José Carlos Canalda, "Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, novelista y poeta", en Puerta de Madrid, núm. 1369 (5-II-1994)
- 7.Andrés, Francisco y Agustín Fiesco eran hermanos, aficionados a la poesía (y poeta asimismo el primero) e hijos del banquero genovés Sinibaldo Fiesco. Salas Barbadillo, en su Necio bien afortunado (Madrid, 1621) realiza la dedicatoria a los hermanos Fiesco y en 1622, cuando publica sus Fiestas de la boda, la dedica a Agustín Fiesco, como también su El sagaz Estacio de 1620.
- 8.The Fortunate Fool. Written in Spanish by Don Alonso Gerónimo de Salas Barbadillo of Madrid. Translated into English by Philip Ayres, Gent., London, 1670. Ejemplar digitalizado en Google libros.
- 9.Citado por Adrienne L. Martin, reseña de Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, La hija de Celestina, ed. de Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Madrid, Cátedra, 2008, en Celestinesca 33 (2009): 259-261
- 10.Émile Artaud, "Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo: epigramas", en Criticón núm. 13 (1981), pp. 29-86: http://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/criticon/PDF/013/013_031.pdf
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