As per our current Database, Luis De Gongora is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Luis De Gongora is 462 years, 9 months and 16 days old. Luis De Gongora will celebrate 463rd birthday on a Thursday 11th of July 2024. Below we countdown to Luis De Gongora upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Luis De Gongora |
Occupation | Poet |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Cancer |
Born | July 11, 1561 (Spain) |
Birthday | July 11 |
Town/City | Spain |
Nationality | Spain |
Luis De Gongora’s zodiac sign is Cancer. According to astrologers, the sign of Cancer belongs to the element of Water, just like Scorpio and Pisces. Guided by emotion and their heart, they could have a hard time blending into the world around them. Being ruled by the Moon, phases of the lunar cycle deepen their internal mysteries and create fleeting emotional patterns that are beyond their control. As children, they don't have enough coping and defensive mechanisms for the outer world, and have to be approached with care and understanding, for that is what they give in return.
Luis De Gongora was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Spanish lyric poet of the Baroque period whose works include Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea and Soledades. He belonged to a 16th and 17th-century literary movement known as culteranismo.
He studied law and later received his ordination as a priest.
He famously feuded with fellow poet Francisco de Quevedo. At one point, Quevedo even accused him of sodomy.
The son of a judge, he grew up in Cordoba, Spain.
Miguel de Cervantes praised de Gongora, calling him one of the best poets of his era.