Antonio de Villegas ( Medina del Campo,

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, c. 1522 – c. 1551) was a Spanish writer. Together with Gregorio Silvestre and other disciples of

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, he stood against the Italianating tendencies of the poetry of his time. He wrote works in prose and verse, gathered in a compilation titled ''Inventario'' (Inventory, 1565), which includes the story ''Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa'', written in 1551 and considered the first Moorish novel. It tells how a Muslim, prisoner to a Christian named Rodrigo de Narváez, recovers his freedom by keeping his word and returning to prison after being released to marry his beloved Jarifa. However, modern critics deny Villegas the authorship of this novel. The work's brevity and success caused it to be included, from 1561 onwards, after the fourth book of

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's ''Diana''.

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and Miguel de Cervantes praised the ''Inventario''. It also includes ''Ausencia y soledad de amor'', a

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novel in prose and verse, and several poems (''canciones'', ''coplas'', ''Historia de Píramo'', ''Contienda de Áyax'').

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