Jorge de Montemayor

Jorge de Montemayor, in Portuguese Jorge de Montemor, was born around 1520 in Montemor-o-Velho, near Coimbra, whose name he took; a Portuguese, he wrote almost everything in Castilian. A musician and singer, he served the Infanta Maria of Portugal, first wife of the future Philip II, then the Infanta Joanna, with whom he returned to Castile in 1554, the year a collection of his poems appeared in Antwerp. He is said to have accompanied Philip II to England. He spent his last years in Piedmont, where he died around 1561, killed, it seems, in a quarrel over jealousy.

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• NovelThe DianaLos siete libros de la DianaJorge de Montemayor · 1559LiteraturePublic domain