Fama posthuma a la vida y muerte del doctor Frey Lope Felix de Vega Caprio
Compiled by Juan Pérez de Montalván.
“First edition of a tribute volume created on the occasion of the death of Lope de Vega with contributions frommore than 150 of his contemporary writers, both male and female. Sonnets, epigrams, extended poems, decimas, elegies in Spanish are joined by a sprinkling of pieces in Latin and Italian. Pérez de Montalván was a disciple of Lope’s and knew just about everyone who was anyone in the Spanish literary circles of the first third of the 17th century, meaning the writers here are to be reckoned with. There is even a sonnet by Antonio Enríquez Gómez , the Sepharic crypto-Jew. “
B-A Note: The only reason I’m familiar with Lope de Vega is because he appears as a recurring character in Arturo Perez Reverte’s Alatriste series of novels. Also, I’ve always been fascinated with the social construct of “Literary Circles”, from Le Rive Gauche in Paris to Dorothy Parker’s Algonquin Round Table. There seems to have been a strong circle in Spain during this time, a theme that also plays in Perez Reverte’s stories. I’m looking forward to diving into reading more of the writers from that period.
