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February 4, 1624, Madrid, Spain

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Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (28 December 1550 – 4 February 1624) was a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro.

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He is credited with the addition of the 5th string to the guitar and the creation of the modern poetic form of the décima, composed of ten octameters, named espinela in Spanish after him.

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Espinel was born in Ronda. He studied at the University of Salamanca, where he adopted as his own his father's second surname, and later on at the universities of Granada and Alcalá. As a latinist, he translated to Spanish Horace's Epistola ad Pisones.

He lived an adventurous life, he was a prisoner of pirates at Argel and a soldier in Italy after being liberated. Afterwards, he moved to Madrid and took the vows in 1589.

In 1618, the printer Juan de la Cuesta published Espinel's picaresque novel Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón. This book, with several autobiographical details, was printed in France the same year and inspired later Lesage's Gil Blas de Santillana. He also published his Assorted rhymes in 1591.

Lope de Vega, who referred to Espinel as his teacher, dedicated him El caballero de Illescas (1602). Espinel also befriended Cervantes, Góngora (whose poetry he helped to publish) and Quevedo. As his friends, he was a member of congregation Esclavos del Santísimo Sacramento. At the time of his death, he was the chaplain at Madrid, and also the music teacher, of the Plasencia bishop.

His bust can be found in Ronda, the city of his birth, in the small Plaza de los Gigantes. His head is decorated with a Laurel wreath.

  • Enciclopedia Libre Universal – Vicente Espinel (in Spanish)
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