Fernán Pérez de Guzmán

Fernán Pérez de Guzmán (born c. 1378—died c. 1460) was a Spanish poet, moralist, and historian, author of the first important work of history and historiography in Spanish. His historical portraits of his contemporaries earned him the title of the “Spanish Plutarch.” A member of a distinguished family, Pérez de Guzmán devoted himself to letters after being imprisoned by Alvaro de Luna, a counselor to King John II of Castile. Although his poetry went through...