HERRERA, FERNANDO DE (c. 1534-1597), Spanish lyrical poet, was born at Seville. His Anotaciones d las obras de Garcilaso de la Vega (158o) involved him in a series of literary polemics, and his verbal innovations laid him open to attack. But the workmanship of his sonnets to the countess of Gelves is ad mirable, while his odes on the battle of Lepanto, on Don John of Austria, and the elegy on King Sebastian of Portugal entitle him to rank as the greatest of Andalusian poets and as the most important of the followers of Garcilaso de la Vega (see VEGA).
See A. Coster, Fernando de Herrera (El Divino), (Paris, 1908).