Marquis of Santillana. Anniversary of his death. Poems

A Íñigo López of Mendoza y de la Vega we all know them as the Marquis of Santillana. It is one of the first but most representative men of the history of Spain, both for his literary work and for his military side. And one day like today he passed away in Guadalajara in 1458. I remember him reviewing his Life and with 4 of his sonnets.

The Marquis of Santillana

Born in Carrión de los Condes (Palencia) in 1398. He was the son of Admiral Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Dona Leonor de la Vega, Asturian nobles from santillana and a family of statesmen and great literati.

His father died when he was six years old and they were his mother and uncle López de Ayala those who took care of his Education. When he was very young, he attended the coronation of Fernando de Antequera in Zaragoza and already stood out as one of the most promising young people in the court of Juan II. He married Catalina Figueroa, daughter of the master of Santiago, Lorenzo Suárez, and one of his sons was the famous Cardinal Mendoza.

Possessed one of the most important libraries of his time and was always surrounded by writers who commissioned the translation of works of Roman and Greek classics. Published the first collection of sayings written in Spanish in Sayings that the old women say after the fire.

Later he wanted to adapt the hendecasyllable verse to the Castilian metric. It did not go as well as he hoped, but it paved the way for later authors. It was in his 42 Sonnets dated in italics, of love theme most and also about the passage of time. He also cultivated the serranillas.

Sonnets

Far from you and close to care

Far from you and close to care;
poor with joy and rich with sadness,
failed of rest and supplied
of mortal sorrow, anguish and bravery,

naked with hope and warm
of immense care and seen of harshness,
my life is gone, my degree is bad,
death pursues me without laziness.

Nor are they enough to satisfy
the burning thirst of my great desire
I cut to the present, nor help me

the sick Guadïana, I don't think so.
Only Guadalquivir has power
of me guarir and only that desire.

Which was the gentle Lavina

Which was the gentle Lavina
in the honored temples of Laurençia,
when they solemnized heritina
the people of her with all femenity;

and which looks like a carnation flower
in the cool gardens of Florençia,
they saw my eyes in a divine way
your image and diva presence,

when the sore or mortal wound
my chest hit with a dart of love,
which kills me promptly and gives life,

I was read, happy or happy.
I gladly pass the undue penalty,
burning with fire I find myself at rest.

Love site with large artillery

Place of love with great artillery
I see myself around, and with immense power,
and they never do at night and during the day,
in my mind this suspense

of their fights, with so much persistence
I already have more than enough, Maguer I defend myself.
Well, what are you doing, or sad life of mine,
that is not enough no matter how much I think?

The corporeal force of Samson,
nor David's great divine love,
Solomon's unknowing brain,

nin Hercoles fails so much dino
that they could resist such pressure;
so to defend me indino failure.

When I see the gentle creature

When I see the gentle creature
that the sky, according to nature
they formed, loo my good fortune,
the point and time that so much beauty

they showed me their beauty,
already alone of praise is purity;
but then I turned with equal sadness

and I start to complain about its rawness.

That it was not so much that of bad Thedeo,
nor did he do that of Achila and Potino,
false ministers of you, Ptholomeo.

So I cry my unworthy service
and my crazy fever, well what do I see
that I am tired and pilgrim.

Source: Cervantes Virtual


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  1.   Carlos Carrillo G. said

    I am a writer and the world of poetry is always my choice, because poetry is life and path and love.

  2.   Diana said

    I thank my teachers who knew how to awaken us the desire to know our beautiful language from its roots… Say