JAUREGUI Y AGUILAR, na-c7Vrtege i nE (e.I570-c.1649). A Spanish poet, born at Seville. lie seems to have begun his reer as a painter, and to have gone to Rome to study art. Some have identified him with the auregui who painted a pieture of Cervantes. and whom the latter mentions in the prologue to his Yorelas. While in Italy he studied Italian erature, and by the publication at Rome, in 1007, of his verse translation of Tasso's Aminta, he firmly established his literary reputation. He seems to have returned to Spain by 1613. In 1018 he published an edition of his verse (Rimas do Juan. de Jauregui) at Seville. In the preface to this volume he protested against the baneful mannerisms that Gougora had intro duced into Spanish poetry, and again in his Diseurso poetic° (1623; cf. the reprint of this in Menendez y Pelayo's Historia de las ideas est. ieas en Espana, Madrid, 1SS4-S9) be assailed the Gongoristic movement. Yet his own Orfco,
a poem in five cantos on the well-known classic legend, has some of the stylistic aberrations of Gongorism. and it was published at Madrid only the following year (1624). It was through a desire to surpass Jduregui that Montalvrin (q.v.), prompted by Lope de Vega, wrote his poem on the same subject. Jduregui yields entirely to the Gongoristie current in the Parselia. a ver sion of Lucan's Latin poem. Jiiuregui's Parsalia was published posthumously in 1684. His per manent title to fame must rest upon the trans lation of the Aminta and on one or two of the lyrics contained in the Rimas, especially the graceful sdlra on his lady-love bathing. Consult the edition of the Ambit(' in Lopez de Sedano's Parnaso cspanol, vol. i. (Madrid, 176S-7S), and the edition of Jauregui's poems in volume xlii, of the Biblioteca de autores espafioles (ib.).