Enriquez Gomez, ANTONIO

Enriquez Gomez, ANTONIO (properly ENRIQUEZ DE PAZ), a Spanish poet, the son of a baptised Portuguese Jew, was born at Segovia early in the 17th century. He entered the army in his twentieth year, and rose to the rank of captain; but in 1636 fled to Amsterdam, and, having there professed the Jewish faith, was in 1660 burned in effigy at a Seville auto-da-fé. The date of his death is not known. For his twenty-two comedies, of which some passed as Calderon's, and his poems, see Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature.