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

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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 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

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, the writer of a spurious continuation (1614) to ''

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

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* 1570s births 1604 deaths People from Orihuela People from the Kingdom of Valencia Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists {{Valencia-stub