Francisco de Rioja
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Francisco de Rioja was a Spanish poet. Rioja was a canon of Seville Cathedral
and a member of the Supreme Inquisition.
considers his poems the first attempts at descriptive poetry in the Castilian language. The style is original, the thoughts beautifully expressed, the taste refined, and the versification well adapted and harmoniously blended with the theme. Menéndez y Pelayo writes that Rioja's "Ode to Summer", and those "To Tranquillity", "To Constancy," "To Riches" and "To Poverty" are, after the lyrics of Fray Luis de León, the best moral odes in Castilian poetical treasure.
The ode "A las ruinas de Italia", which belongs to Rodrigo Caro
, and the "Epístola moral", whose author is probably Francisco de Andrada, were earlier ascribed to Rioja.
Seville Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See , better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville . It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world....
and a member of the Supreme Inquisition.
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considers his poems the first attempts at descriptive poetry in the Castilian language. The style is original, the thoughts beautifully expressed, the taste refined, and the versification well adapted and harmoniously blended with the theme. Menéndez y Pelayo writes that Rioja's "Ode to Summer", and those "To Tranquillity", "To Constancy," "To Riches" and "To Poverty" are, after the lyrics of Fray Luis de León, the best moral odes in Castilian poetical treasure.
The ode "A las ruinas de Italia", which belongs to Rodrigo Caro
Rodrigo Caro
Rodrigo Caro was a Spanish historian, archeologist, lawyer, poet and writer....
, and the "Epístola moral", whose author is probably Francisco de Andrada, were earlier ascribed to Rioja.