Alonso de Villegas Selvago, also known as Selvago, which may also have been a second surname, of Genovese origin (Toledo, 1533 - ib., January 23, 1603)[1] was a Spanish ecclesiastic and writer.
Biography
editAs a student and later professor of theology at the universidad de Toledo, was a chaplain in his cathedral and baptized in the church of San Sebastián and in San Marcos in the same city, where he resided for almost his entire life.[2]
His only known works include Comedia llamada Selvagia: en que se introduzen los amores de un cavallero llamado Selvago con una ilustre dama dicha Ysabela, efetuados por Dolosina, alcahueta famosa (Toledo: Joan Ferrer, 1554),[3] one Life of San Isidro Labrador (Madrid, 1592),[4] one Life of San Tirso (Toledo, 1592) and a Flos sanctorum in six volumes — a collection of stories in various manuscripts (which was read by Tomás Tamayo de Vargas) has been lost. One of Villegas's subjects in the Flos sanctorum was Saint Irene based on a popular legend in the Iberian Peninsula called La margarita del Tajo.[5] He also drew from Plutarch's work for the story detailing the death of Pan when Jesus was born.[6]
References
edit- ^ Se suele atribuir a este autor una fecha de deceso bastante posterior a causa de la confusión a que dan lugar numerosos [1], documentados por Sánchez Romeralo
- ^ Jaime Sánchez Romeralo: Alonso de Villegas: semblanza del autor de la "Selvagia" y El maestro Alonso de Villegas: postrimerías de su vida Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Comedia llamada Selvagia
- ^ Villegas, Alonso de (1873). Comedia llamada Selvagia, compuesta por Alonso de Villegas (in Spanish). pp. viii.
- ^ Gascon, Christopher D.; Gascón, Christopher D. (2006). The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. p. 83. ISBN 0-8387-5647-6.
- ^ Irigoyen-Garcia, Javier (2013). The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-4426-4727-5.