Juan José Martí (1570 – 22 December 1604) was a Spanish novelist, who was born at

Orihuela Orihuela (; ca-valencia, Oriola ) is a city and municipality located at the feet of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Spain. The city of Orihuela had a population of 33,943 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. The mu ...

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about 1570. He graduated as bachelor of canon law at

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in 1591, and in 1598 took his degree as doctor of canon law; in the latter year he was appointed co-examiner in canon law at the

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, and held the post for six years. He died in

, and was buried in

Valencia Cathedral Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia ( es, Iglesia Catedral-Basílica Metropolitana de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Valencia, ca-valencia, Església Cated ...

on 22 December 1604. Marti joined the Valencian Academia de los noclurnos, under the name of Atrevimiento, but is best known by another pseudonym, Mateo Luján de Sayavedra, under which he issued an apocryphal continuation (1602) of Alemán's ''Guzmán de Alfarache'' (1599). Marti obtained access to Alemán's unfinished manuscript, and stole some of his ideas; this dishonesty lends point to the sarcastic congratulations which Alemán, in the genuine sequel (1604) pays to his rival's sallies: "I greatly envy them, and should be proud that they were mine." Ezequiel González Mas ''Historia de la literatura española: Barroco : (siglo XVII)'' Volume 3 - Page 415 - 1989 "El adjetivo "verdadero" era obvia respuesta al valenciano Juan José Martí (1570-1604), posible autor de otra segunda parte que apareció en 1602 bajo la firma de Mateo Luján de Sayavedra." Marti's book is clever, but the circumstances in which it was produced account for its cold reception and afford presumption that the best scenes are not original. It has been suggested that Marti is identical with Avellaneda, the writer of a spurious continuation (1614) to ''

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...

''; but he died before the first part of ''Don Quixote'' was published (1605).

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* 1570s births 1604 deaths People from Orihuela Writers from the Valencian Community Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists {{Valencia-stub