Vicente Espinel
Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (born December 28, 1550 in Ronda , Spain , † February 4, 1624 in Madrid ) was a Spanish writer , composer , musician , guitarist, priest and translator of the Siglo de Oro .
Life
Vicente Espinel, son of Francisco Gómez and Juana Martínez, received his first training in literature and music from Juan Cansino. He studied in 1571 and 1572 under the name Vicente Martínez Espinel in Salamanca , where he returned in 1572 after a short absence. With music lessons he initially kept his head above water rather badly than well. In 1572 his uncles gave him a job as chaplain . During his second stay in Salamanca, he made friends with important personalities of his time such as Jorge Manrique and Luis de Góngora and his music gave him access to the courts of the Counts of Tarifa , the Dukes of Alba and others. For some time he lived in Saragossa ; then he tried to embark on a military career and entered the service of Pedro de Castro, Count of Lemos, whose squire he was in Valladolid from 1574 to 1577 . His life was adventurous as a soldier and musician; In Seville , where he had moved after the Count of Lemos had accompanied King Sebastian of Portugal on his unsuccessful Africa campaign, he frequented rather disreputable circles, so that some patrons like the Count of Algaba withdrew from him. Espinel then had to flee from the judiciary and went to church asylum.
From there the Count of Dénia took him out, who sent him to Italy to serve the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , but Vicente Espinel was kidnapped by Berber pirates to Algeria and only released again in 1573. He later traveled extensively through Flanders , Italy and Spain. In 1589 he was ordained a priest and from then on held various ecclesiastical offices.
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Vicente Espinel was a much admired poet in his day; Lope de Vega and Miguel de Cervantes were among his admirers . The ten-line punch with the rhyme scheme[abbaaccddc], which was created from the combination of two quintillas , is named after him décima espinela or simply espinela .
Vicente Espinel was also an important figure as a composer and guitarist and was also mentioned in works by Miguel de Cervantes . Espinel is also credited with inventing the fifth guitar string.
As a humanist he translated the Epistola ad Pisones by Horace .
Literary works
- Diversas rimas , 1591 (collection of poetry)
- Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón , Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta 1618. ( picaresque novel with an autobiographical background); German translation by Ludwig Tieck (Breslau 1827).
Web links
- Literature by and about Vicente Espinel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolf Moser : Vihuela, guitar and lute in Spain during the 16th century. Part II: The Guitar. In: Guitar & Laute 3, 1981, 5, pp. 14-18; here: p. 18
- ↑ Wolf Moser: Bermudo, Espinel and the dispute over the invention of the fifth string of the guitar. In: Guitar & Laute 5, 1983, 5, pp. 294-297
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Espinel, Vicente |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gómez Martínez-Espinel, Vicente |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish lyric poet and musician of the baroque period |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ronda , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1624 |
| Place of death | Madrid |