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Juan Ruiz (active 1343)
Ruiz, Juan (rö-ēth’). A Spanish poet of the fourteenth century, known as Archpriest of Hita; born at Alcalá or Guadalajara, in 1300; died about 1351. He is the most original of mediæval Spanish poets, and has left a poem on love and women, which, while purporting to treat of morality and the follies of earthly love, is in reality a textbook for the man who wishes to become a successful lover. It is interspersed with songs, the best of which are the ‘Song of Scholars’ and ‘Song of the Blind.’