CARO, RODRIGO. - Spanish priest, scholar and poet, b. at Utrera in 1573 and d. at Seville on 10 Aug. 1647.
Particularly devoted to the study of history, archaeology and numismatics, he left among his major works the Días geniales o lúdricos, a precious source for the study of Spanish folklore, the Varones insignes en letras... de Sevilla, the Antigüedades de Sevilla... y chorographia de su convento jurídico, and various works on Utrera (El santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación, etc.), writings in all of which erudition does not preclude moving evocations of the past. As a poet he is remembered, besides for his sonnets, for the celebrated Canción a las ruinas de Itálica, long attributed to the Sevillian poet Francisco de Roja, a theme already treated before but renewed by him in its elegant and limpid form, in its sonorous rhetoric, in its dignified tone.
Bibliography6 worksTexts: Le Obras en prosa, published in the Memorial histórico español, 1 (1851), pp. 345-476; together with the poetic ones they were reprin
BIBL.: Texts: Le Obras en prosa, published in the Memorial histórico español, 1 (1851), pp. 345-476; together with the poetic ones they were reprinted under the care of the Sociedad de bibliófilos andaluces, XIV-XV, Seville 1883-84; the Varones y Epistolario con un estudio biográfico-crítico were published by S. Montoto (ibid. 1914); an edition of the Canc. a las ruinas de I. accompanied by introduction, Latin version and notes, was published under the care of M. A. Caro (Publicaciones del Institut. Caro y Cuervo, II, Bogotá 1947). Literature: A. Fernández Guerra, La canción «A las ruinas de Itálica» ya original ya refundida, no es de Fr. de Roja, in Memorias de la Academia Española, 1 (Madrid 1870), pp. 174-217; A. Sánchez y Castañer, R. C., estudio biográfico y crítico, Madrid 1914; A. Baig Baños, R. C. autor de la Epístola moral a Fabio, ibid. 1932.
Scudieri, Ruggieri Jole. “Caro, rodrigo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 909. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/caro-rodrigo.
MLA
Scudieri, Ruggieri Jole. “Caro, rodrigo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 909. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/caro-rodrigo.
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@incollection{ec3_caro_rodrigo,
author = {Scudieri, Ruggieri Jole},
title = {Caro, rodrigo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {909},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/caro-rodrigo}
}
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