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2	[[caption-width-right:250:"For you I must die, and for you I die."[[note]]This 1550 portrait is officially anonymous, but some believe it to be a copy or reproduction of a lost portrait of Garcilaso.[[/note]]]]
3	García Lasso de la Vega (c. 1501 – 14 October 1536), best known as Garcilaso de la Vega, was a Spanish [[WarriorPoet captain, poet and writer]] of the Spanish Golden Age. One of the most celebrated poets in the history of Spain, if not the most, he influenced most other writers of the Golden Age, like Creator/LopeDeVega, Creator/FranciscoDeQuevedo and Creator/MiguelDeCervantes, and his work has remained uninterruptedly popular up to present time, being very often used as the measuring stick for every other Spanish-speaking poet. His descendant was Creator/IncaGarcilasoDeLaVega, considered his counterpart in the Hispanic American prose.
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5	He was born in Toledo to a family of the lower nobility, although this part of his life is obscure, with propositions about his exact birth date going wildly from 1487 to 1503. In any case, and despite being ruled out of succession for being a second son, he received an extensive education in five languages and many fields, including fencing, music and literature, making him a veritable RenaissanceMan. He formed part of the court of King UsefulNotes/CharlesV, eventually joining his royal guard, and was also part of the entourage of Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez, Duke of Alba, for which Garcilaso became close friends with the next duke in line, the future famous [[UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfAlba Fernando Álvarez de Toledo]]. Garcilaso and Fernando served together in the UsefulNotes/ItalianWars against the French and multiple military campaigns against the Ottomans.
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7	Garcilaso was a known ladies man. He had a stable marriage in lady Elena de Zúñiga, but there were a very long list of women in his love life, some of which he immortalized in his {{poetry}}. This included his first love, Guiomar Carrillo, as well as Magdalena de Guzmán, Beatriz de Sá, and at least two more.
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9	He started writing poetry by suggestion of his friend Juan Boscán, who published his works after Garcilaso's death. Although he acknowledged he was not an InstantExpert, he eventually came to handle quite well the classicist and Petrarchian styles coming from the Italian Reinaissance, and was the first to introduce several lyrical conventions to Spanish language. He is best known for his tragic love poetry, abundant in allusions to Greco-Roman mythology, great musicality and absence of traditional religion, as well as his pastoral work, which went to influence, as said above, from the poets of his own time to the Nobel Prize-winning Seamus Heaney in the very 20th century.
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11	He traveled extensively throughout Europe and served as a spy during the truce with France after the Battle of Pavia. Despite his political success, however, Garcilaso suffered a brief banishment after participating an a marriage disfavored by King Charles, during which he was an exile in the court of castellan György Cseszneky in Hungary, but he was recalled to Spain when his experience against the Turk was needed again. He later joined yet another war against France, even being named general of a ''tercio'', but his pen was left orphan when he was killed in action while acting as a FrontlineGeneral in Provence. His death was very deeply felt, enraging King Charles to the point he had the entire enemy garrison executed.
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13	His nephew Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega was a conquistador during the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheIncaEmpire, where he married the Inca aristocrat Isabel Suárez Yupanqui and had a mestizo son, Gómez Suárez, who would eventually become the father of Hispanic American literature under the pen name of Creator/IncaGarcilasoDeLaVega.
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15	!!Tropes found in his work:
16	* {{Arcadia}}: His specialty, as he wrote a lot about idealized, dreamy pastoral scenes inspired by ancient Greek literature.
17	* BoringButPractical: Contrary to the popular image of him in modern times, probably caused by the uninformed idea that the best poet of all must be the most verbose and incomprehensible to the unlearned, Garcilaso actually spoused the belief that it was better to write in a simple style than to indulging in PurpleProse.
18	* LoveHurts: A staple of his poetry, which often focuses on unrequited love and related sufferings.
19	* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: With a tend towards the first.

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