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Luis Barahona de Soto
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or LUIS BARAHONA DE SOTO (1 535?- 1 595), Spanish poet, was born about 1535 at Lucena (Cordova), was educated at Granada, and practised as a physician at Cordova. His principal poem is the Primera parte de la Angelica (1586), a continuation of the Orlando furioso; the second part was long believed to be lost, but fragments of it have been identified in the anonymous Didlogos de la monteria, first printed in 1890; the Dialogos also embody fragments of a poem by Barahona entitled Los Principios del mundo, and many graceful lyrics by the same writer have been published by Francisco Rodriguez Marin. Cervantes describes Barahona as "one of the best poets not only in Spain, but in the whole world"; this is friendly hyperbole. Nevertheless Barahona has high merits: poetic imagination, ingenious fancy, and an exceptional mastery of the methods transplanted to Spain from Italy. His Angelica has been reproduced in facsimile (New York, 1904) by Archer M. Huntington.
See F. Rodriguez Marin, Luis Barahona de Soto, estudio biogrdfico, bibliografico, y critico (Mardid, 1903); Didlogos de la monteria, edited by F. R. de Uhagon (Madrid, 1890). (J. F. K.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Luis Barahona de Soto'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/luis-barahona-de-soto.html. 1910.
