Lope De Vega

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Gabriel Santos Jr. Clement Markley World Literature I Section 2332.30 March 15, 2012 Lope De Vega Born on the 25th of November of 1562 in Valladolid, Madrid, Lope Felix de Vega y Carpio came from humble parents. His dad, Felix de Vega, was an embroiderer and his mother, Francisca Flores. He studied at a college of Society of Jesus and then at the universities of Alcala and Salamanca, Madrid. His life was very eventful. Felix Lope de Vega, a well educated person but who had a life of affairs, which was once married several times and had several mistresses; he was a soldier, secretary of diplomats and, finally, a priest, had an influence upon the art and music of his time. Lope de Vega was a prodigious boy since childhood. At the age of five, he spoke perfect Castellan and Latin, and composed verses taught by Vicente Espinel, a Spanish writer and musician. At age ten, he translated from Latin to Spanish Claudio’s poem, “El Rapto de Proserpina.”; In addition, Claudio Claudiano was a Latin poet (Siliunas 226). At thirteen, Vega wrote his first comedy play, which was entitled “True Lover,” a comedy, dedicated to his future son, Carlos Felix, where he will know the family background and the way the father way of thinking. He was enrolled in the Imperial College in 1574 where he studied the fundamentals of art and music; consisting of grammar, rhetoric, dancing, singing, fencing, and playing the violin (Zamora 33). At the age of fifteen, he is under the care of Don Jeronimo Manrique, who was paying for his four years in pursuing his priesthood from 1577 until 1581, at the University of Alcala de Henares; because of a disordered life and countless love affairs, causes the loss of care of the bishop to stop paying for his studies, because that behavior is not right in order to become a priest (“Britannica”). Being not able to get his title, he decides to make a

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