Luis Vélez de Guevara
Illustration — Placa de la calle de Luis Vélez de Guevara Luis Vélez de Guevara (born Luis Vélez de Santander) (1 August 1579 – 10 November 1644) was a Spanish dramatist and novelist. After graduating as a sizar at the University of Osuna in 1596, he joined the household of Rodrigo de Castro, Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, and celebrated the marriage of Philip III in a poem signed Vélez de Santander, a name which he continued to use until some years later. It seems he served as a soldier in Italy and Algiers, returning to Spain in 1602 when he entered the service of the count de Saldaña, and dedicated himself to writing for the stage.
Also recorded as Luis Velez de Guevara
Luis Vélez de Guevara
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- Born
- 1579 · Écija.
- Died
- 1644 · Madrid.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- poet · writer · playwright · soldier
- Fields
- dramaturgy
- Education
- University of Osuna
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Placa de la calle de Luis Vélez de Guevara Luis Vélez de Guevara (born Luis Vélez de Santander) (1 August 1579 – 10 November 1644) was a Spanish dramatist and novelist. After graduating as a sizar at the University of Osuna in 1596, he joined the household of Rodrigo de Castro, Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, and celebrated the marriage of Philip III in a poem signed Vélez de Santander, a name which he continued to use until some years later. It seems he served as a soldier in Italy and Algiers, returning to Spain in 1602 when he entered the service of the count de Saldaña, and dedicated himself to writing for the stage.
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He died in Madrid on 10 November 1644. Velez de Guevara was the author of over four hundred plays, of which the best are Reinar despues de morir, La luna de la sierra, and El diablo está en Cantillana. The play Más pesa el rey que la sangre, which translates into "The King weighs more than blood (kinship)" is based on the episode of the Reconquista in which the nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán allows his son to be sacrificed, rather than surrender his King's possession of Tarifa. However, Vélez de Guevara is most widely known as the author of El diablo cojuelo (1641, "The Lame Devil" or "The Crippled Devil"), a fantastic novel which suggested to Alain-René Lesage the idea for Le Diable boiteux (1707). The plot presents a rascal student who hides in an astrologer's mansard. He frees a devil from a bottle. A similar theme was suggested by the magic lenses in Los anteojos de mejor vista (1620–1625) by Rodrigo Fernández de Ribera. Charles Dickens refers to El Diablo cojuelo in The Old Curiosity Shop, chapter 33.
Luis Vélez de Guevara is recorded as poet, writer, playwright and soldier. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Luis Velez de Guevara. His recorded language was Spanish. One child is recorded: Juan Vélez de Guevara.
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1579
Luis Vélez de Guevara born at Écija.
1644
Luis Vélez de Guevara died at Madrid.
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Écija.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1305828: Luis Vélez de Guevara
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- “Luis Vélez de Guevara”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- A "History of Spanish Literature" by Luis Vélez de Guevara, Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1983
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1983
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- 1.Martín Ojeda, Marina, y C. George Peale [2017], Luis Vélez de Guevara en Écija: su entorno familiar, liberal y cultural, Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, Newark
- 2.Luis Vélez de Guevara en Écija: su entorno familiar, liberal y cultural.
- 3.En la Historia General de la Provincia de Andalucía de la Compañía de Jesús del padre Juan de Santibáñez, se puede leer: "Fue Luis de Santander natural de Écija [...] preso por el Santo Oficio de la Inquisición, murió relajado al brazo seglar, y acabó en la hoguera". Los hechos que relata el padre Santibáñez tuvieron lugar más o menos por 1554.
- 4.Los Urosas.
- 5.http://manuelblascuatro.blogspot.com/2020/04/el-diablo-cojuelo-de-luis-velez-de.html
- 6.Conferencia de C. George Peale.
- 7.Treinta comedias desconocidas de Ruiz de Alarcón, Mira de Amescua, Vélez de Guevara, Rojas Zorrilla y otros de los mejores ingenios de España.
- 8.La puerta Macarena (Primera parte).
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A "History of Spanish Literature" by Luis Vélez de Guevara, Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1983Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q1305828: Luis Vélez de GuevaraWikimedia Foundation
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