Pedro de Lujan

Pedro de Luján (b.Seville in the 16th century-f.post.1563) was a Spanish writer, editor, lawyer and Erasmus.

Biography

He was born in Seville at the beginning of the reign of Carlos, the son of an embroiderer. He studied in Alcalá de Henares, at whose university he graduated with a degree. Back in his hometown, he practiced as a lawyer at the Royal Court of Seville.

In 1546 he published the twelfth book in the series of Amadís de Gaula, Silves de la Selva, reprinted in 1549, and in 1550 the work Coloquios matrimoniales, printed by first time in Seville in 1550 and reprinted on numerous occasions.

He was a book printer from 1550 to 1560, and inherited the printing press that his uncle-in-law Dominico de Robertis, husband of one of his mother's sisters, had in Seville.

In addition, with his name and as his own work, the book of chivalry Leandro el Bel was published in Spanish, printed for the first time in Toledo in 1563, which Luján dedicated to Juan Claros de Guzmán, count of fog. This book had been published in Italian in 1560 under the title Leandro il bello and attributed to Pietro Lauro. For a long time Spanish scholars of chivalric books considered it to be the work of Luján, until the scholar Henry Thomas in his study of chivalric books concluded that the original was Italian. However, it is still a matter that has not been clearly elucidated, since recently there are studies that consider that the original was written in Spanish and the Italian edition is a translation, either from a manuscript or from an edition that has not been published. survived specimens.