Boscan-Almogaver, JUAN

Boscan-Almogaver, JUAN, a Spanish poet, born about 1495 at Barcelona, of an ancient noble family, came to Granada to the court of Charles V. in 1519. The education of the celebrated Duke of Alva was afterwards intrusted to him. He died in 1542. He was the first to make use of Italian measures in Spanish verse, and thus became the creator of the Spanish sonnet. His poems, which are still esteemed, were first published in 1543; the best edition appeared at Madrid in 1875.