Hernando de Acuña a native of Valladolid

Valladolid

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, was a favorite of Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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, not only for his military, but for his literary talents. His translation of the well-known romance of Olivier de la Marche

Olivier de la Marche

Olivier de la Marche was a courtier, soldier, chronicler and poet in the last decades of the independent Duchy of Burgundy. He was close to Charles the Bold, and after his death held the important position of maître d'hotel to his daughter Mary of Burgundy, and her husband, and was sent on a...

, under the title of El Cavallero Determinado, was much esteemed by the emperor; so indeed were his translations from Ovid

Ovid

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 and Boyardo, and his Poesías varias. As a pastoral poet he excelled. Such poetry has long been despised, but in his time, it was amazingly popular in England

England

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, Italy

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, and Spain

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. He died at Granada

Granada

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in 1580.

Other poems were published by his widow in 1591.