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Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra (18 July 1610 – 19 April 1686) was a Spanishdramatist and historian. His work includes drama, poetry, and prose, and he has been considered one of the last great writers ofSpanish Baroque literature.
He was born atAlcalá de Henares (or, less probably, Plasencia). He studiedlaw atSalamanca, where he produced a comedy entitledAmour and Obligation, which was acted in 1627. He became secretary toDuarte Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, and in 1654 he was appointed secretary of state as well as private secretary toPhilip 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 atMadrid on 19 April 1686.[1]
Of his ten extant plays, two have some place in the history of the drama.El Amor al uso was adapted byScarron and again byThomas Corneille asL'Amour de la mode, whileLa Gitanilla de Madrid, itself founded on the novela ofCervantes, has been utilized directly or indirectly by Pius Alexander Wolff,Victor Hugo andLongfellow.[1]
The titles of the remaining seven areTriumph from Armor and Fortune,Eurídice y Orfeo,The Alcetzar del secretion,The Amazons,The Doctor Carlino,Un bobo hace ciento andDefend the Enemy.Amor y obligación survives in a manuscript at the Biblioteca Nacional.[1]
TheHistoria de la conquista de México, población y progresos de la América septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España, covering the three years between the appointment ofCortés to command the invading force and the fall of the city, deservedly ranks as a Spanish prose classic. It was first published in 1684 in Spain. French and Italian translations were published by the 1690s, and an English translation by Townshend appeared in 1724.[1] The book was extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic and was known to important figures in colonial Latin America and the British colonies. It remained the most important European source on Latin American history up through the first part of the nineteenth century.[citation needed]
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Solís, Antonio de".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 361–362.
