Fernán Pérez de Guzmán

Spanish author

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Born:: c. 1378

Died:: c. 1460

Subjects Of Study:: historiography

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Fernán Pérez de Guzmán (born c. 1378—died c. 1460) was a Spanish poet, moralist, and historian, author of the first important work of history and historiography in Spanish. His historical portraits of his contemporaries earned him the title of the “Spanish Plutarch.” A member of a distinguished family, Pérez de Guzmán devoted himself to letters after being imprisoned by Alvaro de Luna, a counselor to King John II of Castile. Although his poetry went through many editions, it is not as a poet that he is chiefly remembered. His fame rests on his Mar de historias (1512; “Sea of Histories”), ...(100 of 228 words)

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