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Gutierre De Cetina

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CETINA, GUTIERRE DE (151 ?_.-1572?), Spanish poet and soldier, was born at Seville. He served under Charles V. in Italy and Germany, but retired from the army in 1545 to settle in Seville. Soon afterwards, however, he sailed for Mexico, where he spent most of the rest of his life, being killed in a street brawl in Los Angeles. A follower of Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Cetina adopted the doctrines of the Italian school and, under the name of Vandalio, wrote an extensive series of poems in the newly introduced metres; his sonnets are remarkable for elegance of form, but his other productions are mostly adaptations from Petrarch, Ariosto and Ludovico Dolce. His works have been well edited by Joaquin Hazanas y la Rua (Seville, See A. M. Withers, The Sources of the Poetry of Gutierre de Cetina, etc. (1923).

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