Juan Boscán Almogáver (1490-1542)

Juan Boscán Almogáver was a Catalan poet who wrote primarily in the Castilian tongue (the form of Spanish most commonly spoken today) rather than the Catalan dialect. One of Boscán's early skills was translating Italian poetry into Spanish and he was no doubt influenced by those works in his own writing. Many of Boscán's poems and sonnets use hendecasyllable, a style originated in Italy with the stress often placed on the tenth syllable of a line.