Vicente Espinel

Vicente Gómez Martínez- Espinel ( born December 28, 1550 in Ronda, Spain, † February 4, 1624 in Madrid) was a Spanish writer, composer, musician and translator of the Siglo de Oro.

Life

Vicente Espinel, son of Francisco Gomez and Juana Martínez, learned his first education in literature and music at Juan Cansino. He graduated in 1571 and 1572 under the name of Vicente Martinez Espinel in Salamanca, where he returned after a short absence in 1572. With music lessons he stayed initially more bad than good about water. 1572 gave him his uncle the position of chaplain. During his second stay in Salamanca, he established friendship with prominent personalities of his time such as Jorge Manrique, Luis de Góngora and or his music gave him access to the courts of the counts of Tarifa, the Dukes of Alba and others. For a time he lived in Saragossa; then he tried to pursue a military career and went to services of Pedro de Castro, Count of Lemos, whose squire he was from 1574 to 1577 in Valladolid. His life was an adventure as a soldier and musician; in Seville, where he had moved after the Count of Lemos King Sebastian of Portugal had accompanied on his unfortunate African campaign, it ran in circles rather disreputable, so some patrons such as the Count of Algaba withdrew from from him. Espinel was then forced to flee from justice, and went to church asylum.

From there, the Count of Denia took out him, who sent him to Italy to serve the Duke of Medina -Sidonia, but Vicente Espinel has been kidnapped by Barbary pirates to Algeria and triggered again until 1573. Later he undertook extended trips through Flanders, Italy and Spain. In 1589 he was ordained a priest and practiced from then on various church offices.

Work

Vicente Espinel was in his time a much-admired poet; his admirers were, for example, Lope de Vega and Miguel de Cervantes. The zehnzeilige stanza with the rhyme scheme abbaaccddc that arose from the combination of two Quintillas, according to him Décima espinela or simply called espinela.

As a composer and guitarist Vicente Espinel was a significant figure: Among other things attributed to him, he had invented the fifth guitar string, but this is provided by recent research in question.

As a humanist, he translated the Epistola ad Pisones of Horace.

Literary works

• Diversas rimas, 1591 ( collection of poetry )
• . Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregon, Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta 1618 ( picaresque novel with autobiographical background); German translation by Ludwig Tieck (Breslau, 1827 ).