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Vicente Espinel as a Musician

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2019

Isabel Pope Conant
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The recent publication of Diversas rimas by Vicente Espinel, based on the unique edition prepared by the poet himself and published in 1591, should rekindle interest in one of the most versatile talents and celebrated personalities of the late Renaissance in Spain. An Andalusian by birth—he was born in Ronda in 1550—Espinel displayed abundantly the ardent temperament and innate artistic gifts so frequent in the natives of this warm and sensuous yet strangely mysterious and ancient land. Furthermore a keen intellect directed these natural talents to make of him in his mature years one of the most respected critics as well as one of the most admired poets and musicians of his day.

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Studies in the Renaissance , Volume 5 , 1958 , pp. 133 - 144
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1958

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References

1 Diversas rimas, ed. Dorothy Clotelle Clarke (New York, 1956, Hispanic Institute in the United States).

2 Quoted from Navas, José, ‘Vicente Espinel, Musico’, Gibralfaro, II (1952), 151–154 Google Scholar.

3 See the extended discussion of the treatises of Amat and Sanz, Gaspar in Salazar, Adolfo, ‘Música, Instrumentos y Danzas en las Obras de Cervantes’, Nueva Revista de Filologla Hispdnica II (1948), 144–158 Google Scholar, notes XIX and XX.

4 Salazar, Adolfo, ibid., pp. 28–38 Google Scholar; La Música en la sociedad europea 1 (Mexico, 1942), Cuarta Parte, Cap. 1, pp. 365-405.

5 Salazar, article cited above, p. 37.

6 Madrid, Palacio Real, Archivo Real, Legajo c.35, documents relating to Diego del Castillo.

7 El escudero Marcos de Obregón (Madrid, 1881). Quoted from the biography of Espinel by Juan Pérez de Guzmán in the edition.

8 I have not been able to see the article by de Guzmán, Juan Pérez, ‘Cancionero inédito de Espinel’, La Illutstración Española y Americana, XXVII (1883), 134–135 Google Scholar, 159-162, 178, which is listed in the bibliography of the edition of Diversas rimas cited above.

9 Madrid, Palacio Real, Archivo Real, Legajo C35, documents relating to Bernardo Clavijo.

10 See p. 106 of the edition by the Hispanic Institute.