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Boscan Almogaver

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Boscan-Almogaver, Juan, poet, was born about 1490 at Barcelona. Coming to Granada he resided at the court of Charles V. He is distinguished as being the father of the Spanish sonnet. His poems were published first in 1543, the year after his death.

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