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Juan Bautista Diamante
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or JUAN BAUTISTA DIAMANTE (1640 ?-1684 ?), Spanish dramatist, was born at Castillo about 1640, entered the army, and began writing for the stage in 1657. He became a knight of Santiago in 1660; the date of his death is unknown, but no reference to him as a living author occurs after 1684. Like many other Spanish dramatists of his time, Diamante is deficient in originality, and his style is riddled with affectations; La Desgraciada Raquel, which was long considered to be his best play,. is really Mira de Amescua's Judia de Toledo under another title; and the earliest of Diamante's surviving pieces, El Honrador de su padre (1658), is little more than a free translation of Corneille's
Cid. Diamante is historically interesting as the introducer of French dramatic methods into Spain.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Juan Bautista Diamante'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/juan-bautista-diamante.html. 1910.
