Cristóbal de Virués

Cristóbal de virüs (* 1550 in Valencia, † 1614 ) was a Spanish soldier and writer and one of the representatives of the Spanish literature of the Siglo de Oro.

Life

Cristóbal de virüs was born in all probability 1550 in Valencia, the son of the physician Alonso de virüs. The father, physician to the archbishop of Valencia, Juan de Ribera, was close to the humanist Juan Luis Vives, which mentions the father several times in a letter to Erasmus of Rotterdam. The sister Benita Jerónima Agustina de virüs had recognized knowledge in Latin. Two brothers Francisco de virüs, a theologian and Jéronimo de virüs, a physician who also appeared as a poet in appearance and were members of the Valencian literary society " Academia de los Nocturnos ".

Little is known about Cristobal youth and education. Participation in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 is multiply occupied by autobiographical Bays in his poetry. Probably towards the end of 1585 different Cristóbal from the virüs from the Spanish army, in which he last held the rank of Capitán. After returning to Valencia, he created his dramatic works: Elisa Dido, La gran Semiramis, La cruel Casandra, Atila furioso and La infelice Marcela. The dramas were not published until 1609 in the Obras. It may be that the late release at a time, in particular, had taken place by Lope de Vega, a sudden evolution of Spanish dramatic literature, the reason for the small effect width of the dramatic work. 1587 published his poetry in virüs 20 songs El Monserrate, the Cervantes counted among the best seals in castilianischer language. 1605 took Cristóbal of virüs again in the rank of captain in an expedition of Spanish Army Association of Milan to Flanders part and commanded the vanguard of the 3000 -strong contingent that crossed the Catholic cantons of Switzerland and the Black Forest on the Camino de Suizo.

The death is unknown, since after 1608 reported no reliable sources about virüs. A eulogy of Lope de Vega, the mentioned 1614 Cristóbal virüs the name is understood by some authors as an indirect indication of the final year. A portrait of the poet is not known. Cristóbal de virüs has been described by a sonnet the poet Matthias de Vargas at the end of the fifth canto of the seal El Monserrate himself: ... with a calm face, hawk nose, lean face, pleasing appearance, respectable affability, humility and rare modesty; pale, blonde, graceful and pleasing manners.

Works

• El Monserrate, Querino Gerardo, Madrid, 1587
• El segundo Monserrate, Grattiadio Ferioli, Milan, 1602
• El Monserrate, tercera impression añadida y notablemente mejorada, Alonso Martin, Madrid, 1609
• Obras y trágicas Liricas del Capitán de Cristóval virüs, Alonso Martin, Madrid, 1609

Secondary literature

• John G. Weiger: Cristóbal de virüs Twain Publishers, Boston 1978, ISBN 0-8057-6338-4
• Rudolf Bolzern: The Spanish troops through trains through Switzerland from 1604 and 1605 Rivista svizzera storica, General historian Research Society of Switzerland, Swiss Association of Archivists, Volume 36, 1986, p 47

• Author
• Literature (16th century)
• Literature ( Spanish)
• Spaniard
• Person (Valencia )
• Born in 1550
• Died in the 17th century
• Man