Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor

Spanish poet

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Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor (born 1583?, Córdoba, Spain—died 1610, Puerto de Santo María) was a Spanish poet known as the chief exponent of culteranismo, which developed from the highly ornate and rhetorical style gongorismo, originated by the poet Luis de Góngora. In Carrillo’s treatise on poetry, Libro de la erudición poética (mod. ed., 1946), he attempted to justify his methods by claiming the merits of obscurity in poetry. Although his life was short and his...