Diego Hernando (Fernando) de Acuña ( Spanish: Hernando de Acuña ; 1520 [4] , Valladolid - June 22, 1580 , Granada ) - Spanish poet of the Golden Age of Spain , translator .
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Biography
Nobleman. In his youth he was a military man, a participant in the Italian Wars on the side of Charles V under the command of Alfonso d'Avalos . Later served as a mercenary in Germany. During this period, around 1543, he wrote poems dedicated to two ladies known as “Sylvia” and “Galatea”. He was captured by the French, but redeemed by the emperor, who appointed him governor of Karasco . In 1557, E. de Akunya participated in the Battle of Saint-Quentin .
Around 1560, E. de Akunya abandoned his further military career and returned to Spain, settled in Granada, where he and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503-1575) soon became the most famous of local poets, and influenced young writers.
Creativity
Political unity, consolidated by the victories of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , led to the formation of a single national literature for all of Spain. There was a temporary political and class consolidation of Spanish literature .
E. de Acuña is one of the followers of the new, Italianized school of Spanish lyrics, which decisively followed the path taken by poets such as Juan Boscan , Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza .
E. de Akunya belonged to the first generation of poets of the Spanish Renaissance , who worked under the influence of Petrarch . He was friends with Garcilaso de la Vega , to whom he dedicated an epigram in Latin shortly before his death. Known for its sonnets , eclogs and elegies , some of which are dedicated to Emperor Charles V, including the famous sonnet “Ya se acerca, señor, o ya es llegada”.
Translator of classical works of the great Latin and Italian authors ( Ovid ). He owns the translation of the chivalrous novel “Le Chevalier délibéré” by Olivier Lamarche into Spanish (“El Cavallero Definado”), which the emperor really liked.
He died in Granada in 1580.