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JUAN BOSCÁN ALMOGAVER was born at Barcelona, and served in the Spanish
Army in Italy, later becoming tutor to the Duke of Alva. His
early verses were written in the old Spanish manner, but when
the Venetian ambassador Navagiero was passing through Granada
he met Boscán and urged him to introduce the Italian styles
of poetry into Spanish. He thereupon followed in the lead of
Imperial and Santillana, and was most influential in establishing
the Italian verse methods in Castilian. He frequently imitated
Dante and Petrarch. His poems were first published with those
of Garcilasso de la Vega in 1543. |
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