FIGUEROA, FRANCISCO DE Spanish poet, of whose life little is known, was born at Alcala. Although Figueroa ordered that his poems should be burnt at his death, the order does not seem to have been carried out for Luis Tri baldos de Toledo in 1625 edited over 6o of Figueroa's poems which exhibit his mastery over blank verse and his inclination to the pastoral tradition. A facsimile of this edition was published by A. M. Huntingdon (1903) .
See his Poesias, edit. A. de Cortes in "Bib. de Autores Esp." vol. xlii. (1857) ; Poesies inedites de Figueroa, edit. R. Foulche-Delbosc in Revue Hispanique, vol. xxv. (1911) ; Varias composiciones ineditas, edit. A. Lacalle Fernandez in Rivista critica hispano-americana (1919). See also J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, A New Hist. of Span. Literature (1926).