Bernardo de Balbuena

Bernardo de Balbuena ( born November 20, 1568 Valdepeñas, † October 11, 1627 in Puerto Rico) was a Spanish poet.

Don Bernardo de Balbuena came young to Mexico, where he made his theological studies and already had a reputation with 17 years as a poet. He has the mother country visited several times, but most of his time spent in Jamaica, where he had a benefice, and in Puerto Rico, whose bishop, he was appointed in 1620.

His main works are the three epic poems:

  • El siglo de oro ( The Golden Age ), Madrid 1608, ( 2nd ed 1821), a pastoral novel in prose and verse, which notably includes several splendidly successful Eclogues;
  • La grandeza mexicana (The size of Mexico ) (Mexico 1609), a poetic description of this city, and
  • El Bernardo, ó la victoria de Roncesvalles, an epic of 5000 verses and 40,000 verses, which in almost Ariostschem mind deals with the history of Bernardo del Carpio (Madrid 1624, new ed 1808), abbreviated in Quintana Musa Epica, vol.2 ( Madrid 1833).
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