Gutierre de Cetina
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Gutierre de Cetina (1518-1572) a Spanish poet and soldier, was born at Seville shortly before 1520. He served under Charles V. in Italy and Germany, but retired from the army in 1545 to settle in Seville. Soon afterwards, however, he sailed for Mexico, where he resided for some ten years; he appears to have visited Seville in 1557, and to have returned to Mexico, where he died at some date previous to 1575. A follower of Juan Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega, a friend of Jerónimo de Tirrea and Baltasar del Alcázar, Cetina adopted the doctrines of the Italian school and, under the name of Vandalio, wrote an extensive series of poems in the newly introduced metres; his sonnets are remarkable for elegance of form and sincerity of sentiment, his other productions being in great part adaptations from Petrarch, Ariosto and Ludovico Dolce. His patrons were Antonio de Leyva, prince of Ascoli, Hurtado de Mendoza, and Alvas grandson, the duke de Sessa, hut he seems to have profited little by their protection. His works have been well edited by Joaquin Hazaflas y la Rfia in two volumes published at Seville (1895).
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