Serafín Estébanez Calderón (27 December 1799 – 5 February 1867) was a Spanish writer, best known by the pseudonym of El Solitario. He was born in

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. His first literary effort was ''El listón verde'', a poem signed "Safinio" and written to celebrate the revolution of 1820. He was called to the bar, and settled for some time in

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, where he published a volume of verses in 1831 under the assumed name of "El Solitario." He obtained an exaggerated reputation as an

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scholar, and played a minor part in the political movements of his time. He died in Madrid in 1867. His most interesting work, ''Escenas andaluzas'' (1847), is in an affected style, the vocabulary being partly archaic and partly provincial; but, despite its eccentric mannerisms, it is a vivid record of picturesque scenes and local customs. Estébanez Calderón is also the author of an unfinished history, ''De la conquista y pérdida de Portugal'' (1883), issued posthumously under the editorship of his nephew,

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Serafín Estébanez Calderón, Wikisource en españolPoesías de D. S. Estébanez Calderón: (El Solitario), hathitrust.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Estebanez Calderon, Serafin Spanish male writers Writers from Málaga 1799 births 1867 deaths