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Who was Elena Osorio in Lope de Vega’s life?
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Elena Osorio was a beautiful and mature actress who became the object of a tempestuous and violent romantic involvement with the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.
Their relationship was defined by intense passion and marked by Lope de Vega’s jealousy regarding Osorio’s affair with a powerful nobleman, Don Francisco Perrenot de Granvelle. When Osorio eventually ended the relationship, Lope de Vega responded by writing fierce libels against her and her family. These actions led to his imprisonment and a subsequent court case in 1588, which resulted in his eight-year exile from Castile.1