Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano
Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano y del Arco (c. 1750 – 1815) was a Spanish playwright, poet and novelist, also known by the pseudonyms and anagrams Alberto de los Ríos, Gil Lorenzo de Arozar and Silvio del Arga.
Biography
He was born at Cadreita, Kingdom of Navarre, the son of Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano y de los Ríos, also from Navarre. He first studied at the Jesuit school in Arga and later graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Huesca. He began to practise law in Pamplona, but moved to Madrid, where he unsuccessfully took part in competitive examinations for philosophy professorships at the Royal Seminary of Nobles. He worked as a scribe at the Royal Library, although he was dismissed in 1809 for absence. He achieved, however, great popularity as a poet in the press in the second half of the 18th century, and also considerable popularity as a playwright. He took part in the War of Independence as a captain of volunteers from Navarre and in 1812 he settled in Palma de Mallorca, where he was noted for his fierce defence of absolutism. After the return of Ferdinand VII he became a member of his Camarilla.
He is the author of some curious collections, such as his Poesías varias (1806), which includes the small epyllion in ottava rima "El valor navarro", which narrates an episode in the life of Charles II of Navarre, anacreontics, odes, satirical letrillas, epigrams, sonnets, fables, tales in verse, romances, imitations of the Argensolas and courtly poems addressed to nobles, sonnets, fables, tales in verse, romances, imitations of the Argensola brothers and courtly poems addressed to nobles, although the autobiographical "Memorial que en estilo burlesco compuso" in décima espinela, which is very funny, stands out; but he wrote and premiered above all plays of all genres: comedies, tragedies, dramas, melodramas, jocular plays, sentimental and tearful comedies such as The Wife of Two Husbands, performed in 1804, and operas such as The Tenant, a translation of Sewrin, or The Marriage of Figaro, a comic opera with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in 1802. He also adapted comedies from classical theatre, adding verses of his own, such as Lope de Vega's Lo cierto por lo dudoso (1803, reprinted in 1825), or Luis Belmonte Bermúdez's El diablo predicador (The Devil Preacher). He even translated the novel Estelle et Némorin by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1797). The neoclassical critics treated him rather badly, but he was successful among the people.
References
- Javier Huerta, Héctor Urzaiz (2005). Emilio Peral, Teatro español de la A a la Z. Madrid: Espasa.
- Mata Induráin, Carlos. (1998). "Las poesías varias (1806) de Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano," Río Arga, No. 88, pp. 46–51.
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- 1750 births
- 1815 deaths
- 18th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
- 18th-century Spanish journalists
- 18th-century Spanish male writers
- 18th-century Spanish poets
- 18th-century Spanish translators
- People from Navarre
- People of the Peninsular War
- Sertorian University of Huesca alumni
