José Camerino (Fano, Italy, c. 1595 - † Madrid, c.1665), Spanish writer of the Golden Age, of Italian origin.
BiographyHis family was Italian and came from the castle of Muccia, in Camerino, but moved to Fano, in the Umbria region, within the Papal States, and very young came to Spain with his relative Pietro, who was settled in Madrid since 1594, after previously passing through Murcia, where other relatives lived, to serve in the Nunciature and its Court, of which he was a notary. He was also Procurator of the Royal Councils and accumulated a lot of fortune. Between 1640 and 1642 he intervened in various lawsuits in the Order of St. Jerome. Work
He is fundamentally known as an excellent court novel writer; he is owed, for example, a collection of Amorous Novels (Madrid: Tomás Iunti, 1624, there is a modern edition with prologue and notes by Fernando Gutiérrez, Barcelona: Selecciones Bibliófilas, 1955). The work has a tenth in praise of Guillén de Castro and a laudatory sonnet by Lope de Vega, who knew the subject of the author's treatment: With tender age and with sound prudence / you write, Camerino, in different / styles of love accidents / the sweet war and the vain hope. / Honoring our Castilian language, you propose with eminent sentences / prudent economic examples and for the government of human life. / If I esteem the gentile philosophy / apologetics and moral fables / these are worthy of your ingenuity alone; / his light with hidden soul to good guides us / these with golden lines are crystals / and you, in Parnassus, dressing room of Apollo.
The work was reprinted in 1736. Camerino also wrote a Political Discourse on these words: a fee de hombre de bien (Madrid: Real Printing, 1631), and approached the theater with comedies like La dama beata (Madrid: Pablo de Val, 1655). Bibliography
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