Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (August 1562February 4, 1631),

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Biography

Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola was baptized at

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on August 26, 1562. He studied at

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, took orders, and was presented to the rectory of

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in 1588. He was attached to the suite of the count de Lemos, viceroy of Naples, in 1610, and succeeded his brother Lupercio as historiographer of

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in 1613. He died at Saragossa on February 4, 1631.

Works

His principal prose works are the ''Conquista de las Islas Molucas'' (1609), and a supplement to Zurita's ''Anales de Aragón'', which was published in 1630. His poems (1634), like those of his elder brother, are admirably finished examples of pungent wit. His commentaries on contemporary events, and his ''Alteraciones populares'', dealing with a Saragossa rising in 1591, are lost. In the second book of the ''Conquista de las Islas Molucas,'' under the title 'Grandeza de la Isla de los Papuas', Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola reports that the Spaniards call white children born to the black people in

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'' Albiños''. This mentioning is considered the first report of the term, older than the use of the term by Balthazar Telles.Pasini, Enrico. 2016. A Prodigious Bodily Nature. Debates on Albinism 1609-1745. In: Adelino Cardoso, Manuel Silvério Marques & Marta Mendonca (eds.). ''Natureza, causalidade e formas de corporeidade''. Ribeirão - V. N. Famalição: Húmus. 193–236. An interesting life of this writer by Father Miguel Mir precedes a reprint of the ''Conquista de las Islas Molucas'', issued at Saragossa in 1891.

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