Diego Beltrán Hidalgo Explained

Don Diego Beltrán Hidalgo was a seventeenth century Spanish Marrano poet.[1] The son of a Jew from Murcia, he was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish popular poetry. The following example of the roundelet is from his pen:

"O no mirar ó morir decis, pensamiento amando? mas vale morir mirando que no mirando vivir."

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  1. Beltrán Hidalgo, poeta gentil y escritor taurino (siglo XVII) - Page 15 Alberto Colao - 1975 "BELTRAN HIDALGO Don Diego Beltrán Hidalgo es un principal poeta entre los muchos que florecieron en la región murciana a comienzos del siglo XVII. En su época, apenas si había certamen, justa o solemnidad literaria a ...