ARGENSOLA, LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE (1559 1613 ), Spanish dramatist and poet, was baptized at Barbastro on Dec. 14, 2559. He was appointed historiographer of Aragon in and in 1610 accompanied the count de Lemos to Naples, where he died in March, 1613. His tragedies—Filis, Isabela, and Alejandra—are said by Cervantes to have "filled all who heard them with admiration, delight, and interest" ; Filis is lost and Isabela and Alejandra, which were not printed till 1772, are pon derous imitations of Seneca. Argensola's poems were published with those of his brother in 1634; they consist of excellent trans lations from the Latin poets, and of original satires.
His brother, BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA (1562 1631), Spanish poet and historian, was baptized at Barbastro on Aug. 26, 1562. He was attached to the suite of the count de Lemos, viceroy of Naples in 161o, and succeeded his brother as historiographer of Aragon in 1613. He died at Saragossa on Feb. 4, 1631. His principal prose works are the Conquista de las Islas Molucas 0609), and a supplement to Zurita's Anales de Aragon, which was published in 1630.