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Garcilaso de la Vega

I lived from 1503-1536. I was from Spain, and am in the European category.

Garcilaso de la Vega, the soldier-poet, was born at Toledo of a distinguished family. He served at the battle of Pavia and took part in several campaigns, winning the favor of Carlos V, and losing it through his supposed part in a conspiracy to mary his nephew to one of the Empress's maids-of-honor. After some months of imprisonment on an island in the Danube, he retired to Naples. In 1533 he visited Boscán in Spain. He was mortally wounded while storming the walls of Muy near Fréjus. He died at Nice and two years later was buried at Toledo. He shared in Boscán's Italian innovations of style and, in the few works that he left, is seen to surpass him. Las Obras de Boscán y algunas de Garcilasso de la Vega were first published at Barcelona in 1543. There is a good edition by Tomás Navarro Tomás in the series of Clásicos Castellanos.

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  • Soneto XXIII
    En tanto que de rosa y azucena
    se muestra la color en vuestro gesto,
    15 lines
  • Soneto V
    Escrito’stá en mi alma vuestro gesto
    y cuanto yo escribir de vos deseo:
    17 lines
  • Egloga I
    El dulce lamentar de dos pastores,
    Salicio juntamente y Nemoroso,
    427 lines
  • Soneto I
    Cuando me paro a contemplar mi’stado
    y a ver los pasos por dó me han traído,
    15 lines
  • Eglogo (fragmento)
    The sweet lament of two Castilian swains,
    Salicio's love and Nemoroso's tears,
    54 lines
  • Soneto XI
    Hermosas ninfas que, en el rio metidas,
    contentas habitáis en las moradas
    15 lines
  • Soneto XXII
    Con ansia extrema de mirar qué tiene
    vuestro pecho escondido allá en su centro,
    14 lines
  • Egloga III: Tirreno - Alcino
    Aquella voluntad honesta y pura,
    ilustre y hermosísima María,
    384 lines
  • Soneto III
    La mar en medio y tierras he dejado
    de cuanto bien, cuitado, yo tenía;
    15 lines
  • Soneto XVIII
    Si a vuestra voluntad yo soy de cera,
    y por sol tengo sólo vuestra vista,
    14 lines
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