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Vicente Espinel

1550 - 1624

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Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈθente espiˈnel]; 28 December 1550 – 4 February 1624) was a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro. He is credited with the creation of the modern poetic form of the décima, composed of ten octameters, named espinela in Spanish after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vicente Espinel is the 4,437th most popular writer (down from 4,372nd in 2019), the 1,393rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,357th in 2019) and the 161st most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among writers, Vicente Espinel ranks 4,437 out of 7,302. Before him are Itō Noe, Arnulf Øverland, Yevgeny Petrov, Orhan Kemal, Gloria Fuertes, and Ippolito Nievo. After him are Dmitry Grigorovich, Kathy Acker, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joe Eszterhas, and Justine Siegemund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, Vicente Espinel ranks 31. Before him are Francisco Sanches, Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi, Orazio Vecchi, Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha, Man Singh I, and Juan de Oñate.  Among people deceased in 1624, Vicente Espinel ranks 16. Before him are Marco Antonio de Dominis, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Juan de Mariana, Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Sebastián Vizcaíno, and Francesco Contarini. After him is Thomas van Erpe.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Vicente Espinel ranks 1,393 out of 3,355. Before him are Assumpta Serna (1957), Héctor Bellerín (1995), Luis Royo (1954), Julián Marías (1914), Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1933), and Gloria Fuertes (1917). After him are César Sánchez (1971), Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902), Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (1951), Josep Tarradellas (1899), José Sacristán (1937), and Fran (1969).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Vicente Espinel ranks 161. Before him are Ildefonso Falcones (1959), Gerardo Diego (1896), Manuel Curros Enríquez (1851), Francisco Umbral (1932), Antonio Muñoz Molina (1956), and Gloria Fuertes (1917). After him are Diego Durán (1537), Juan de la Cueva (1543), Rosa Sensat (1873), Almudena Grandes (1960), Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880), and Enric Valor i Vives (1911).

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