Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra

His work includes drama, poetry, and prose, and he has been considered one of the last great writers of Spanish Baroque literature.

Later he obtained the lucrative post of chronicler of the Indies, and, on taking orders in 1667 severed his connexion with the stage.

El Amor al uso was adapted by Scarron and again by Thomas Corneille as L'Amour de la mode, while La Gitanilla de Madrid, itself founded on the novela of Cervantes, has been utilized directly or indirectly by Pius Alexander Wolff, Victor Hugo and Longfellow.

[1] The titles of the remaining seven are Triumph from Armor and Fortune, Eurídice y Orfeo, The Alcetzar del secretion, The Amazons, The Doctor Carlino, Un bobo hace ciento and Defend the Enemy.

It remained the most important European source on Latin American history up through the first part of the nineteenth century.