Félix Lope de Vega Carpio | Notable Biographies

(1562/11/25 - 1635/08/27)

Lope de Vega
Lope Félix de Vega y Carpio
Poet, novelist and dramatist Spanish

He was born on November 25, 1562 in Madrid. Son of an embroiderer.
He studied in a Jesuit College and then at the universities of Alcalá and Salamanca.
In 1583 he participated as a soldier in the expedition to the Azores under the command of Álvaro de Bazán.
In love with the actress Elena Osorio, years later reflected it in his novel La Dorotea (1632) as Phyllis. When he leaves, he run by Madrid offensive verses to her that earned you a process and a sentence of banishment I in 1588. By powers he married Isabel de Urbina, woman of noble and wealthy family. It became the Belisa in his poems, died in 1594. It is related to Micaela Luján, a beautiful and uneducated woman who already drove verses from 1593 with the name of Camila Lucinda. Micaela was married, and maintained relations with it for fifteen years, giving him five children. 25 April 1598 he married Juana de Guardo daughter of a wealthy merchant who never made effective the dowry that he had promised his daughter.
In 1604 his novel, the Pilgrim in his homeland. In 1609 he published the poem new art of doing comedies, where it exposes his conception of the Theatre. His son Carlos Felix died in 1612, suffers a major emotional crisis and in 1614 was ordered priest. In 1616 he met Marta de Nevares, 26 year-old girl who had married against her will to a merchant to thirteen. It was the Amaryllis and Marcia Leonarda of his poems and novels. In 1621 her daughter Marcela entered the convent of the Trinity and that same year her son Lope Felix left home to start the career of the weapons, which led him to death in a shipwreck off the coast of Venezuela in 1634, year in which his daughter Antonia Clara, taken with Marta, of only seventeen She ran with a gallant, taking jewelry and money.
Close friend of Cervantes first, hard rivals after - and fans one of the other, despite all-, Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina was the greatest exponent of the Spanish Baroque Theatre. Author of more than 1,500 works dramatic, more than 3,000 poems: his literary production is huge, which led him to be known as El Fénix de los Ingenios. His contemporary (and neighbor) Cervantes described it as a "monster of nature". His works include the comendador de Ocaña, El caballero de Olmedo, the villain in his corner, punishment without revenge, La dama boba or the dog in the Manger.
He wrote pastoral novels (La Arcadia, 1598); novels Byzantine, the Pilgrim in his homeland, 1604; short novels as Novels of Marcia Leonarda (1621-1624). Among his epico-narrativos poems are the beauty of Angelica (1602), The conquered Jerusalem (1609) or La Dragontea, (1602) and between the burlesque La Gatomaquia (1634). He gathered his lyrical poems rhymes (1602); the sacral rhymes (1614), the spiritual ballads (1619) and the human and divine rhymes of the licensed Tomé de Burguillos (1634). The Spanish historical and legendary subject belong last godó, the bastard Mudarra, the best Mayor, the King, La Estrella de Sevilla, Fuenteovejuna, Peribáñez y comendador de Ocaña, which are among his best works, such as some of folkloric and popular environment including: the dog in the manger, the villain in his corner, La dama boba, the Spice-Belisa , The girl of the pitcher, the steel.
Lope de Vega died in Madrid August 27, 1635, the Madrid public attended his funeral mass. Their funerals were celebrated with pageantry, at the expense of the Duke of Sesa, his heir.