Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola

Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (baptised 14 December 1559 – 2 March 1613) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.

He was educated at the universities of Huesca and Zaragoza, becoming secretary to the duke de Villahermosa in 1585.

He was appointed historiographer of Aragon in 1599, and in 1610 accompanied the count de Lemos to Naples, where he died in March 1613.

He translated and imitated Horace, and modelled his austere style on that of Luis de León.

He and his brother (... 'come to reform the Castilian tongue', said Lope) stand for a Malherbe-like sobriety, soon swept aside by culteranismo.