Background
Antonio Mira de Amescua was born on January 17, 1577, at Guadix, Spain.
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Antonio Mira de Amescua was born on January 17, 1577, at Guadix, Spain.
In 1610, being then arch-dean of Guadix, he accompanied the count de Lemos to Naples, and on his return to Spain was appointed (1619) chaplain to the cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria; he is referred to as still alive in Montalban's Para todos (1632), and he collaborated with Montalban and Calderon in Polifemo у Circe, printed in 1634.
Mira de Amescua's plays are dispersed in various printed collections. Two of his plays—La Adversa fortuna de Don Bernado de Cabreraand and El ejemplo mayor de la desdicha-are respectively the sources of Rotrou's Don Bernardo de la Cabrhre and Belisaire; Moreto's Coer para levantar is simply a recast of Mira's El Esclavo del demonio, a celebrated drama which clearly influenced Calderón when composing La Devocion de la cruz; and there is manifestly a close relation between Mira's La Rueda de la fortuna on the one hand and Corneille's Heraclius and Calderon's En esta vida todo es verdad у todo es mentira. A few of Mira de Amescua's plays are reprinted in the Biblioteca de autores espanoles, vol. xiv.
Antonio Mira de Amescua died in 1636.
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