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Antonio de Solis
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or ANTONIO DE SOLIS (1610-1686), Spanish dramatist and historian, was born in 1610 at Alcalh de Henares (less probably, Plasencia), and studied law at Salamanca, where he produced a comedy entitled Amor y obligacion, which was acted in 1627. He became secretary to the count of Oropesa, and in 1654 he was appointed secretary of state as well as private secretary to Philip IV. Later he obtained the lucrative post of chronicler of the Indies, and, on taking orders in 1667, severed his connexion with the stage. He died at Madrid on the 19th of April 1686. Of his ten extant plays, two have some place in the history of the drama. El Amor al use was adapted by Scarron and again by Thomas Corneille as L' Amour a la mode, while La Gitanilla de Madrid, itself founded on the novela of Cervantes, has been. utilized directly or indirectly by P. A. Wolff, Victor Hugo and Longfellow. The titles of the remaining seven are Triunfos de amor y fortuna, Euridice y Orfeo, El Alc¢zar del secreto, Las Amazonas, El Doctor Carlino, Un Bobo hate ciento, and Amparar el enemigo. Amor y obligacion survives in a manuscript at the Biblioteca Nacional. The Historia de la conquista de Mejico, covering the three years between the appointment of Cortes to command the invading force and the fall of the city, deservedly ranks as a Spanish prose classic. It was published in 1684; an English translation by Townshend appeared in 1724.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Antonio de Solis'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/antonio-de-solis.html. 1910.
