Francisco de Figueroa (poet)
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Francisco de Figueroa (c. 1530 – c. 1588) was a Spanish poet best known for his love sonnets and his bilingual compositions in Spanish and Italian. Born in Alcalá de Henares, Figueroa spent his early years in Alcala, studying under Spanish humanist Ambrosio Morales, and traveled to Italy at an early age (we find him in Siena in 1552).
For much of his life, Figueroa served as an aide to Spanish diplomats; for example, to the Spanish ambassador to France, (1559–1561); , 6th Count of Benavente, Viceroy of Valencia (c. 1567); and , Duke of Terranova, Prínce of Castelvetrano (1578–1579).
In the late 1570s or early 1580s, Figueroa seems to have retired to Alcala. His friend Miguel de Cervantes includes him as a character in his pastoral novel La Galatea. Figueroa's works were published posthumously by Pedro Craesbeeck in Lisbon in 1625.
- 16th-century Spanish poets
- Spanish Renaissance humanists
- 1530s births
- 1580s deaths
- People from Alcalá de Henares
- Spanish male poets
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