Bartolomé Torres Naharro
Bartolomé de Torres Naharro (c. 1485, Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura – c. 1530) was a Spanish dramatist and Leonese language writer of Jewish converso descent. • Illustration — Propalladia
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Bartolomé Torres Naharro

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- Born
- 1485
- Birthplace
- Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura
- Died
- 1530
- Place of death
- Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura?
- Education
- University of Salamanca
- Occupation
- Dramatist
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish · Leonese
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Bartolomé de Torres Naharro (c. 1485, Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura – c. 1530) was a Spanish dramatist and Leonese language writer of Jewish converso descent. • Illustration — Propalladia
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• Born — 1485 • Birthplace — Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura • Died — 1530 • Place of death — Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura? • Education — University of Salamanca • Occupation — Dramatist • Notable Works — Propaladia
Life
Life
After some years of soldiering and of captivity in Algiers, Torres Naharro took holy orders, settled in Rome about 1511, and there devoted himself chiefly to writing plays. Though he alludes to the future pope, Clement VII, as his protector, he left Rome to enter the household of Fabrizio Colonna at Naples as a chaplain where his works were printed under the title of Propaladia (1517). He is conjectured to have returned to his native place, and to have died there shortly after 1529. His Diálogo del nacimiento is written in unavowed, though obvious, imitation of other Leonese language writers as Juan del Encina, but in his subsequent plays he shows a much larger conception of dramatic possibilities. He classifies his pieces as comedias á noticia and comedias á fantasía; the former, of which the Soldatesca and Tinellaria are examples, present in dramatic form incidents within his personal experience; the latter, which include such plays as Serafina, Himenea, Calamita and Aquilana, present imaginary episodes with adroitness and persuasiveness. According to an evaluation in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: Torres Naharro is much less dexterous in stagecraft than many inferior successors, his humour is rude and boisterous and his diction is unequal; but to a varied knowledge of human nature he adds knowledge of dramatic effect, and his rapid dialogue, his fearless realism and vivacious fancy prepared the way for the romantic drama in Spain. Only one complete copy of the Propaladia is known to exist. This book was stolen from the Royal Danish Library in the seventies and was not seen again until it turned up at an auction at Christie's in 2003 where relatives of the original thief tried to sell it.
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Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Bartolome Torres Naharro and Bartolomé de Torres Naharro. His recorded languages were Spanish and Leonese.
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1485
Bartolomé Torres Naharro born at Torre de Miguel Sesmero.
1520
Bartolomé Torres Naharro died at Seville.
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Torre de Miguel Sesmero.
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Seville.
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- 1.Para Américo Castro el autor muy posiblemente fuera de origen converso (1996) y su discípulo el hispanista Stephen Gilman (1969) mostró que varios de los personajes de sus obras son conversos, pero no hay documentos que lo acrediten a ciencia cierta.
- 2.El autor. Apunte biográfico.
- 3.Oleza, Juan, «En torno a los últimos años de Bartolomé de Torres Naharro», en P. Garelli e G. Marchetti, eds. Un «Hombre de bien». Saggi di lingue e letterature iberiche in onore di Rinaldo Froldi. Alessandria. Edizioni dell’Orso. 2004. pp. 233-248.
- 4.Oleza (2004), p. 12.
- 5.López Prudencio rescató en 1934 un expediente de 1826 en el que se habla de la fundación de una capellanía por Bartolomé Sánchez Naharro en la Torre de Miguel Sexmero; este personaje, en su testamento de 1521, estableció una cláusula que rezaba «Item, mando a Juan hijo de Alonso Hernández una viña que yo tengo en el término de esta villa con otra viña que le dio Bartolomé Naharro que es difunto».
- 6.Pérez Priego, Miguel Ángel, «Bartolomé de Torres Naharro», Diccionario biográfico español, Real Academia de la Historia.
- 7.Domínguez Bordona, J. Proceso inquisitorial contra el escultor Esteban Jamete, Madrid, Junta para la ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas, 1933, p. 53.
- 8.Cfr. Wilson, Edward M. y Duncan Moir, Historia de la literatura española, vol. 3: Siglo de Oro: teatro., Barcelona, Ariel, 1985 (6ª ed. rev.), pág. 43. ISBN 84-344-8354-8
- 9.Cfr. Wilson, Edward M. y Duncan Moir, Historia de la literatura española, vol. 3: Siglo de Oro: teatro., Barcelona, Ariel, 1985 (6ª ed. rev.), pág. 45. ISBN 84-344-8354-8
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