Fernando De Herrera

Fernando de Herrera (~1534–1597), known as 'El Divino,' was a prominent 16th-century Spanish poet, critic, and man of letters from Seville, leading figure of the first School of Seville focused on rhetoric and neoclassic poetry.[1][2][5] He authored influential works including love lyrics, patriotic odes on the Battle of Lepanto and Don Juan of Austria, an annotated edition of Garcilaso de la Vega's poetry, and prose like the history of the Cyprus War and a biography of Thomas More.[2][3][5] Though he took minor orders for a benefice that supported his writing, he never became a priest and died in Seville at age 63.[1][2][5]