لويس ڤيليز دى غيڤارا

Placa de la calle de Luis Vélez de Guevara

لويس ڤيليز دى گڤارا ( Luis Vélez de Guevara ؛ وُلِد بإسم Luis Vélez de Santander؛ 1 أغسطس 1579 – 10 نوفمبر 1644) كان كاتب دراما وروائي إسپاني. He was born at Écija and was of Jewish converso descent. After graduating as a sizar at the University of Osuna in 1596, he joined the household of Rodrigo de Castro, Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, and celebrated the marriage of Philip III in a poem signed Vélez de Santander, a name which he continued to use till some years later.

It seems he served as a soldier in Italy and Algiers, returning to Spain in 1602 when he entered the service of the count de Saldaña, and dedicated himself to writing for the stage. He died at Madrid on 10 November 1644.

Velez de Guevara was the author of over four hundred plays, of which the best are Reinar despues de morir, La Luna de la Sierra, and El Diablo está en Cantillana. The play Más pesa el rey que la sangre, which translates into "The King weighs more than blood (kinship)" is based on the episode of the Reconquista in which the nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán allows his son to be sacrificed, rather than surrender his King's possession of Tarifa. However, Vélez de Guevara is most widely known as the author of El diablo cojuelo (1641, "The Lame Devil" or "The Crippled Devil"), a fantastic novel which suggested to Alain-René Lesage the idea for Le Diable boiteux (1707). The plot presents a rascal student that hides in an astrologer's mansard. He frees a devil from a bottle. As an acknowledgement the devil shows him the apartments of Madrid and the tricks, miseries and mischiefs of their inhabitants. A similar theme was suggested by the magic lenses in Los anteojos de mejor vista (1620–1625) by Rodrigo Fernández de Ribera. Charles Dickens refers to El Diablo cojuelo in The Old Curiosity Shop, chapter thirty-three.

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 المراجع

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guevara, Luis Velez de" . دائرة المعارف البريطانية. Vol. 12 (eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

 وصلات خارجية

• أعمال من Luis Vélez de Guevara في مشروع گوتنبرگ
• Works by or about لويس ڤيليز دى غيڤارا at Internet Archive
• Works by لويس ڤيليز دى غيڤارا at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Luis Vélez de Guevara at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes