, the name of two Spanish poets, brothers, and natives of Balbastro in Aragon, who descended
from a family originally of Ravenna. Their poems were
published under the title of “Rimas de Lupercio, i del
doctor Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola,
” Saragossa,
1634, 4to. Antonio, the Spanish biographer, speaks in
high terms of this volume, and after him Baillet and Feutry
declare that these brothers were the Horaces of Spain.
Lupercio, or Lobergo-Leonardo d‘Argensola, the eldest,
born about the year 1565, was gentleman of the chamber
to cardinal Albert of Austria, secretary to the empress
Maria of Austria, and secretary of state and of war under
count de Lemes, the viceroy of Naples, where he went to
reside in 1611, and where he died in 1613. He wrote
three tragedies, Isabella, Phillis, and Alexander. Bartholomew Leonard d’ Argensola, the brother, born in 1566,
was successively canon of the metropolitan church of Saragossa, chaplain to the empress Maria, and rector of Villa
Hermosa. He accompanied his brother to Naples, and
after his death, became historiographer of Aragon, and
died at Saragossa, Feb. 26, 1631. Besides the poems
printed with those of his brother, he wrote, 1. “Conquista
delas islas Molucas,
” Madrid, 1609, fol. 2. “Primera parte
de los analesde Aragon que prosigue los de Zurita,
” Saragossa, 1630, fol. and some other works enumerated by
Antonio.