La Culpa del Primer Peregrino [The Guilt of the First Pilgrim: poetry].

GOMEZ, ANTONIO ENRIQUEZ.

Heirs of Juan Garcia Infanzon

Madrid

1735

Kayserling, p. 49.

Born at the end of the 17th-century in Segovia, Antonio Enriquez Gomez studied philosophy, diplomacy, history and literature. At age twenty he commenced a military career, soon achieving the rank of captain. Nonetheless, he was persecuted by the Inquisition for judaizing and burned in effigy in Seville in 1660. Able to escape to France, he lived for a while in Bordeaux and Rouens publishing there several literary works. He then relocated to Holland, where he died circa 1662. Gomez was a lyric poet of note, excelling in the epic and dramatic. This work deals with philosophical, existential issues. Many of the scenes of mythic proportions are of Biblical inspiration: The Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, as well as the Biblical characters of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Job, et al.