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Gil Vicente

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Portuguese writer (1465-1536)

Person · Open Library

Born
1465?
Died
1536?
Works
132

Top works

  • Gil Vicente e Camões
  • AUTO DOS REIS MAGOS
  • ...Autos de Gil Vicente
  • Tragicomedia de don Duardos
  • Côrtes de Júpiter

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Mexico
Active from
1940-02-17
Active to
2021-12-12
latinranchera

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6
Total plays
17

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gil+Vicente">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Gil Vicente

Quotes

  • En la huerta nasce la rosa:quiérome ir allápor mirar al ruiseñor cómo cantavá.
  • La caza de amores de altanería.
  • Quem não é senhor de siPorque o será de ninguém?

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born
c. 1465, Guimarães , Portugal
Died
1536 (aged 70 – 71), possibly Évora , Portugal
Occupation
Playwright , goldsmith (disputed)
Alma mater
University of Salamanca (assumed)
Subject
Religion , satires
Literary movement
Renaissance humanism , Portuguese Renaissance
Notable works
A Trilogia das Barcas , Farsa de Inês Pereira , Monólogo do Vaqueiro

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

15 objects attributed to Gil Vicente, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

~23 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Gil Vicente ( Portuguese: [ˈʒil viˈsẽtɨ]; c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Also noted as a lyric poet, Vicente worked in Spanish as much as he worked in Portuguese and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.

Vicente was attached to the courts of the Portuguese kings Manuel I and John III. He rose to prominence as a playwright largely on account of the influence of Queen Dowager Leonor, who noticed him as he participated in court dramas and subsequently commissioned him to write his first theatrical work.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gil Vicente” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.