Hortensio Félix Paravicino
{{Short description|Spanish monk and writer (1580–1633)}}
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Hortensio Félix Paravicino y Arteaga (12 October 1580 – 12 December 1633) was a Spanish preacher and Culteranismo Baroque poet from the noble house of Pallavicini.
Life
He was born in Madrid and was educated at the Jesuit college in Ocaña, and on April 18, 1600 joined the Trinitarian Order. A sermon pronounced before Philip III at Salamanca in 1605 brought Paravicino into notice; he rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important foreign missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the death of Philip III in 1621 delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Paravicino y Arteaga, Hortensio Felix|volume=20|page=799}}
His {{lang|es|Oraciones evangélicas}} (1638-1641) makes use of extravagant tropes and metaphors. His {{lang|es|Obras posthumas, divinas y humanas}} (1641) include his devout and secular poems, as well as a play entitled {{lang|es|Gridonia}}; his verse, like his prose, shows the influence of Gongora, and were highly regarded in his lifetime. He was a great connoisseur of painting, but argued for the destruction of all paintings of nudes: "the finest paintings are the greatest threat: burn the best of them". However these views were too extreme for even 17th century Spain, where the King and leading courtiers kept galleries of such works in relatively private rooms, and his piece on the subject was not published in the pamphlet for which it was written.Javier Portús, p.63, in: Carr, Dawson W. Velázquez. Ed. Dawson W. Carr; also Xavier Bray, Javier Portús and others. National Gallery London, 2006. {{ISBN|1-85709-303-8}}
In film
Fernando Fernández de Córdoba played Paravicino in the 1947 historic drama Lady in Ermine.{{cite web |last1=de Mingo Lorente |first1=Adolfo |title=La procesión del Corpus Christi de Toledo en el cine |url=https://www.toledo.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/la-procesion-del-corpus-christi-de-toledo-en-el-cine.pdf |publisher=Ayuntamiento de Toledo |access-date=13 July 2021 |location=Toledo |pages=2 |language=es-ES |format=PDF |quote=A excepción de este -quien, como Samuel, se ha formado en Italia- y del padre fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino (Fernando Fernández de Córdoba), el resto de la sociedad toledana parece dar la espalda al orfebre.
|trans-title=The Procession of Corpus Christi of Toledo in film
|trans-quote=But for this -who, like Samuel, learned in Italy- and Father Friar Hortensio Félix Paravicino (Fernando Fernández de Córdoba), the rest of Toledan society seems to give a cold shoulder to the silversmith.}}
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Category:17th-century Spanish poets
Category:Spanish people of Italian descent