HERRERA, ar-riVnl, PERNANno DE (1.i3-1 ;17 _\ Spanish poet, born at Seville. the head of the so-called Seville school of lyric poetry in the sixteenth century. \\•hen advatieed in life he took orders. 1 le was master of the Greek, Boman, and Italian literatures. and was a man of pro digious learning. .1. a poet he ranked so high ill the opinion of his contemporaries that they bestowed upon bin) the appellation of the 'divine.' Like his acknowledged master, Garcilaso the in Vega. he sings chiefly in the foreign Italian and is intrtieularl• sueeessful in the n•ittn and the sum to. Eli. Masterpiece is the cn neitSn (or ode) per In ritoria dt /epanto. AlattY of his erotic piienl. are remarkable for tender feeling, and liis odes frequently display a lofty heat the expression is some cast in too (classieal a mold, and consequent ly wear-. a certain air artifieiality. Ilerrera himself for publication a volume of his verse, Air/I/MIS ()bras, Neville, to which additions were made in an edition hy Pacheco (11;19). The poems are to be found also in
llanaM Fernandez. Rigs eastellamm ( i;OR and in the Ribli(dt autu•es espanoles, xxxii. (Madrid, P5721: selections in Ford, .1 Spanish latholoaa ( New. York. 19(11). Nis chief his torical work is the b'• laeitin de guerra de Chip•e y halal/a de Lepanto (1572), and he the Latin of Stapleton a life of Sir fhlanas Abut.. In 15,10 he 1110) 11,11yd an annotated edition of the poems of Gar( ilaso. Consult: Fcrna ado de Herrera, Cost trart.•sta sobrc anotaeioncs d las obras de (Iar esla so de la !ego: Pin sias lull liii(IS 1870) ; Morel-Fatio, L'hyncn• stir Lo'pante (Paris, Is9:3) ; Lasso de la Vega. //atoms dt la poetic(' rillana (Aladrid, 15710 ; Boureiez, in t he .1 /males du Its 1 acuity tits b tires de t Bordeaux, 1691 ) .