C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Juan Boscán (d. 1542)
Boscán Almogaver, Juan (bos-kän’ äl-mō-gä-vār’). A distinguished Spanish poet; born in Barcelona. While attached to the court of Charles V. at Granada he was led to a study of Italian poetry, and was the first to employ the Italian measures in Castilian song. Again, in a poem imitative of Musæus’s ‘Hero and Leander,’ he was the first to introduce in Spain rhymeless verse. His poems, collected and published in 1543, had 21 editions in the sixteenth century. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).