Juan del Valle y Caviedes

Peruvian writer

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In Latin American literature: The Barroco de Indias
…of colonial doings, however, by Juan del Valle y Caviedes, a shopkeeper who was also Spanish-born. Caviedes, the best-known satirical poet of the Barroco de Indias, focused on the frailties of the human body, to the extent that some readers believed him to be syphilitic as well as misanthropic. His…
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