Joan Baptista Aguilar was a dramatic author and poet who lived in
Valencia, Spain
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...
from his birth until his death in 1714.
In 1655 he was a teacher in the Convent of the Trinity in Valencia. He published a collection of
poetry, entitled ''Varias hermosas flores del Parnaso'' (1680).
His poetry also appears in several Valencian publications of the period. He was the author of the
comedy ''Triunfos de Marino y Fortunas de Heliogabalo'' (presented in Valencia in the 1660s), and of the third part of ''Teatro de los dioses de la gentilidad'' (1688) by Baltasar Vitoria. He also translated some Italian historical and philosophical works and a political
treatise, ''Perfecto politico retrato de un principe perfecto''.
[''Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana'', 2008]
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Year of birth missing
1714 deaths
17th-century Spanish writers
17th-century Spanish poets
Spanish male poets
Writers from Valencia
17th-century male writers
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