Mateo Rosas de Oquendo (ca. 1559–1612) is
viceregal Peru's earliest
satirist. Born in
Spain, he travelled to the
New World where he served as Secretary to the Viceroy
García Hurtado de Mendoza
García or Garcia may refer to:
People
* García (surname)
* Kings of Pamplona/Navarre
** García Íñiguez of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 851/2–882
** García Sánchez I of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 931–970
** García Sánchez II of Pam ...
. Notarial documentation shows him as engaged in the conquest of
Tucumán, where he is named Accountant of Royal Finances and founds the city of
La Rioja. He was also a land grantee in
Canchanga and
Camiquín. He probably left Peru and settled in
Mexico around 1598.
His works are found mainly in two manuscripts, one at the
National Library of Spain
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
in
Madrid (MS 19381) and the other, Ms. Codex 193, at the Library of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Bibliography
Lasarte, Pedro. Mateo Rosas de Oquendo. Obra completa y poemas relacionados (Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma / Editorial Universitaria, 2019).
*Lasarte, Pedro. Ed., ''Sátira hecha por Mateo Rosas de Oquendo a las cosas que pasan en el Pirú, año de 1598. Estudio y edición crítica'' (Madison: HSMS, 1990).
*Lasarte, Pedro. ''Lima satirizada (1598-1698): Mateo Rosas de Oquendo y Juan del Valle y Caviedes'' (Lima: PUCP, 2006)
*Reyes, Alfonso. "Sobre Mateo Rosas de Oquendo, poeta del siglo XVI." ''Revista de filología española'', 6 (1917), 341-70.
References
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1550s births
1612 deaths
Peruvian satirists
16th-century Spanish writers
16th-century male writers
Viceroyalty of Peru people
Peruvian poets
Peruvian writers