Feliciano de Silva

Feliciano de Silva (Ciudad Rodrigo, n. between 1480 and 1492 - Ib., June 24, 1554) was a Spanish writer, continuator of the Celestina and Amadís de Gaula and father of the father of Poet Diego de Silva and Guzmán.

Biography

was the son of Carlos V's chronicler, Tristán de Silva, who participated in the Guerada War and was a councilor of Ciudad Rodrigo and, between 1491 and 1492, mayor of Madrid.

In his years, he was in America and in Seville served the archbishop Don Diego de Deza, to whom he dedicated his Lisuarte de Greece , published in this city in 1514. He served two years to Emperor Carlos, Emperor Carlos, during which he could have participated in the War of the Communities of Castile (1520-21) on the Emperor's side. He was also councilor of his hometown. In his Feliciano de Silva 's dream, added at the end of his book of Caballerías Amadís de Greece, tells the story of his curious loves with what would be his wife, grace faith, daughter of the Judeoconverso Hernando de Caracana, with which he married in 1520 against the opinion of his whole family.

was a friend of Alonso Núñez de Reinoso, author who manifests a great influence of Feliciano; and from Jorge de Montemayor, so it follows from reading his epitaph and the elegía who dedicated him after his death. He had seven sons (four daughters and three sons). One of them, Diego, was a poet, fought during the conquest of Peru and was appointed mayor of Cuzco, in addition to being a protector of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; He died in a battle against the natives. Maria married Don Fadrique de Toledo, Clavero of the Order of Calatrava. Feliciano, who in 1540 was the page of Don Juan Alonso de Guzmán el Bueno, sixth Duke of Medina Sidonia, saved the Duchess Doña Ana de Aragón, to die drowned in Seville.

work

wrote a Second Celestina (1534), a work that reached four reprints and that has little literary merit even when it does not intend to emulate its model. It is a chaotic mixture of Erasmian satire, picaresque types, quality verses and heavenly elements. In her Celestina has not died, but Pármeno and Sempronio left her for dead very badly injured and she decided to pretend her death to take revenge on them. He seeks help at the house of an archedian friend of his, recovers and decides to thank God for his resurrection straightening his sinful life. That is why I mediate between felids and Polandria so that their story has a happy ending; Next to this main love story, there are many other secondary ones.

also wrote several books of cavalries belonging to the popular Cycle of Amadís de Gaula. The first he published was Lisuarte de Greece (1514) relatively short work, which tells the feats of a grandson of Amadís de Gaula and had considerable editorial success. He then published a continuation of this work, the Ninth Book of Amadís de Gaula, chronicle of the very brave and hard -working prince and gentleman of the ardent Amadís sword of Greece, son of Lisuarte de Greece, emperor of Constantinople and Trapisonda, and King of Rhodes (1530). The Amadís of Greece, which includes elements of the pastoral novel in its final chapters, also received an excellent reception from the public. In 1532 his Niquea Florisel came out, which narrates in two parts the adventures of a son of Amadís de Greece, and who continued in 1535 in a third part called Rogel de Greece; Finally, in 1551 his voluminous quarter of Don Florisel de Niquea, the last work of the Amadisian cycle appeared. Several of these works were translated into English and many of them were subsequently reworking, for example, the dramatic versions Don Florisel de Niquez I> of the Count of Villamediana or Amadís and Niquea of Francisco Leyva, works that remember the great popularity of which Nickea's Florisel enjoyed. This influence exceeds the borders, and William Shakespeare presents a character called Florisel in winter tale .

His contemporaries (Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, for example) and Miguel de Cervantes himself in the <span style They made fun of their ampulous and recharged style and the unreasonableness of their reasons. Most of the commentators and scholars of Don Quijote adopted an equally adverse position to Silva, although many of them had not read any of his chivalry books. Today there is a review of such criteria and tends to give more value to his literary work and the contribution of Silva to the Literature of the Golden Age. He also participated in a part of Quijote, where he is recognized as one of his More coveted and preferred writers of Quijote, had a singular value in that novel since many of his textual appointments were interpreted by himself.