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CASTILLEJO, CRISTOBAL DE (1490-1556), Spanish poet, was born at Ciudad
Rodrigo in 1490. In 1518 he left Spain with Ferdinand of Austria,
afterwards emperor, whose private secretary he eventually became. While
residing at Vienna in 1528-1530 he wrote the _Historia de Piramo y
Tisbe_, and dedicated it to Anna von Schaumberg, with whom he had a
platonic love-affair. He seems to have visited Venice, to have been
neglected by his patron, to have fallen ill in 1540, and to have passed
his last years in poverty. He died on the 12th of June 1556, and was
buried at Vienna. Castillejo's poems are interesting, not merely because
of their intrinsic excellence, but also as being the most powerful
protest against the metrical innovations imported from Italy by Boscan
and Garcilaso de la Vega. He adheres to the native _quintillas_ or to
the _coplas de pie quebrado_, and only abandons these traditional forms
when he indulges in caustic parody of the new school--as in the lines
_Contra los que dejan los metros castellanos_. He excels by virtue of
his charming simplicity and his ingenious wit, always keen, sometimes
licentious, never brutal. The urbane gaiety of his occasional poems is
delightfully spontaneous, and the cynical humour which informs the
_Dialogo de las condiciones de las mujeres_ and the _Dialogo de la vida
de la corte_ is impregnated with the Renaissance spirit. Castillejo is
the Clement Marot of Spain. His plays are lost; the best text of his
verses is that printed at Madrid in 1792.

CASTILLO SOLORZANO, ALONSO DE (1584?-1647?), Spanish novelist and
playwright, is stated to have been baptized at Tordesillas near
Valladolid on 1st October 1584. Nothing is known of his youth, and he is
next heard of at Madrid in 1619 as a man of literary tastes. While in
the service of the marquis de Villar, he issued his first work,
_Donaires del Parnaso_ (1624-1625), two volumes of humorous poems; his
_Tardes entretenidas_ (1625) and _Jornadas alegres_ (1626) proved that
he was a novelist by vocation. Shortly afterwards he joined the
household of the marquis de los Velez, viceroy of Valencia, and
published in quick succession three clever picaresque novels: _La Nina
de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares_ (1634), _Las Aventuras del
Bachiller Trapaza_ (1637), and a continuation entitled _La Gard