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Alonso de Castillo Solorzano

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Born:
1584, Tordesillas, Spain
Died:
1648 (aged 64)

Alonso de Castillo Solorzano (born 1584, Tordesillas, Spain—died 1648) was a Spanish novelist and playwright whose ingenuity expressed itself best in his short stories.

His father served in the court of the Duke of Alba and the son with the Marqués del Villar and two marqueses de los Vélez. His stories are usually of adventure but treated with wit and sophistication. Many of his tales are strung together by an artifice or are arranged, in indirect imitation of the Decameron, within a framework. Examples are: Jornadas alegres (1626; “Gay Trips”) and Noches de placer (1631; “Nights of Pleasure”). His picaresque novels make much of the female pícara (“rogue”) as protagonist or adjutant.

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