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José Pellicer de Ossau Salas y Tovar

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José Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar, by Juan Carreño de Miranda.

José Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar (26 April 1602 – 16 December 1679) was a Spanish publicist for Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, poet, genealogist, and historian of Castile and Aragon.

Life

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José Pellicer was born in Zaragoza. He studied Grammar in Consuegra under Juan García Genzor and later moved to Salamanca, where he studied Canon Law at the University. He went on to study Philosophy at the University of Alcalá; On 11 May 1620 he married Sebastiana de Ocáriz, by whom he had five children: Marco Antonio, Hipólito Raimundo, Enrique Manuel, Luisa María and Antonia Josefa.

Pellicer was a skilled linguist, trained in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and French. His classical learning is displayed in his commentary on the works of Góngora. In 1629 he was appointed chronicler of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon, a position previously held by Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola and his brother Bartolomé Leonardo. He conceived the ambitious project of writing a general history of Spain that could supersede Juan de Mariana's classic Historiae de rebus Hispaniae.[1] In 1640 he was named Chief Chronicler of King Philip IV.

An expert genealogist, he also stood out as a historian and writer of literary works, especially poetry. He published a commentary on Luis de Góngora in 1630, and his own poetry was influenced by Culteranismo. His incisive analyses of Góngora's subtleties are of great assistance to any student of the poet. Pellicer corresponded on historical subjects with the archeologist and poet Rodrigo Caro.[2] His wide and miscellaneous historical lore is manifested in his genealogical and other works, which show, however, more the spirit of an antiquarian than of a historian.

As a man of letters he is most known for his polemical writings, and his poems on historical and mythological subjects, such as the Rapto de Ganímedes (1624), or the Poema de Lucrecia (1622). His Spanish translations of John Barclay's Argenis (1626) was highly praised by Baltasar Gracián.

Pellicer is considered the greatest genealogist of seventeenth-century Spain. His work was continued toward the end of the century by Luis de Salazar y Castro.[3]

His Avisos históricos, which recount current events occurred from May 1639 to November 1644, are considered an early example of Spanish journalism.[4] The Avisos históricos report a wide range of national and international news and represent an important source of information for the historian of early modern Spain.

Pellicer died in Madrid on 16 December 1679.[5]

Works

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  • El Fenix y su historia natural: escrita en veinte y dos exercitaciones, diatribes o capitulos. Madrid: en la Imprenta del Reyno. 1630.
  • Lecciones solemnes a las obras de Don Luis de Gongora y Argote. Madrid: en la Imprenta del Reino (a costa de Pedro Coello). 1630.
  • Anfiteatro de Felipe el Grande, Rey catolico de las Espanas, monarca soberano de las Indias de Oriente y Occidente. Madrid: Juan Gancalez. 1631.
  • Obras de Quinto Septimio Florente Tertuliano, Presbítero de Cartago. Primera parte, con version parafrástica y argumentos castellanos. Barcelona: Gabriel Nogués. 1639.
  • Bibliotheca formada de los libros i obras publicas de don Ioseph Pellicer de Ossau y Touar. Valencia: Geronimo Vilagrasa. 1671.
  • Población, y lengua primitiva de España. Valencia: Benito Macé. 1672.
  • Aparato a la monarchia antigua de las Españas en los tres tiempos del mundo, el adelon, el mithico y el historico. Vol. 1. Madrid: Benito Macè. 1673.
  • Enrique Tierno Galván (ed.), Avisos históricos, Madrid, Taurus (col. Ser y Tiempo. Temas de España, vol. 31), 1965.
  • Antonio López Ruiz; Antonio José López Cruces, eds. (2006). Defensa de España contra las calumnias de Francia (Satisfación a los engaños de su manifiesto, motiuo de los intentos del Rey Cristianísimo, verdad de los designios del Rey Católico, en las alteraciones de Europa) (PDF). Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012.
  • Francis Cerdán, ed. (1994). Honras fúnebres y fama póstuma de Fray Hortensio Paravicino. Toulouse: Helios.

References

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  1. ^ Kagan, Richard L. (2009). Clio and the Crown. The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-1421401652.
  2. ^ Pascual Barea, Joaquín (2002). "Veterum Hispaniae deorum Manes siue reliquiae: noticias del tratado de Rodrigo Caro sobre la religión antigua en Hispania". Noua et uetera: Nuevos horizontes de la Filología Latina. Madrid: Sociedad de Estudios Latinos: 1049-1064 (1050).
  3. ^ Mérimée, Ernest (1930). A History of Spanish Literature. Translated by S. Morley. New York: Taylor & Francis. p. 285.
  4. ^ See Enrique Tierno Galván (ed.), Avisos históricos, Madrid, Taurus (col. Ser y Tiempo. Temas de España, vol. 31), 1965.
  5. ^ Germán Bleiberg; Maureen Ihrie; Janet Pérez (1993). Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 1247. ISBN 978-0-313-28732-9.
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