Antón de Montoro
Antón de Montoro · Arts & Literature
'El Ropero de Córdoba', converso poet of the fifteenth-century Cancioneros
vers 1404, Montoro (Cordoue), Castille (Espagne) — vers 1480, Cordoue, Espagne
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Antón de Montoro is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — 'El Ropero de Córdoba', converso poet of the fifteenth-century Cancioneros
Origins and early life
Antón de Montoro was born around 1404 near Córdoba, a Jewish converso — 'judío converso', in the words of the Royal Academy of History, the Royal Spanish Academy and the provincial archive of Córdoba, which has published his will; he never hid it, and it is the very substance of his poetry.
Work and career
A clothes dealer and tailor by trade — hence his name, El Ropero de Córdoba, the Old-Clothes Man — he was also one of the sharpest poets of the Castilian cancioneros, a disciple, by his own claim, of Juan de Mena, and the satirical, burlesque, self-mocking voice of a century that was learning to hate his kind. His most famous poem, addressed to Queen Isabella, is a bitter marvel: an old man of seventy who has eaten pork, gone to mass and crossed himself all his life, and who is still called, in the street, 'the old Jew'.
He wrote also, with fury, of the anti-converso massacres of Córdoba in 1473, which he witnessed. He died around 1480 — a decade before the Inquisition would have made his irony impossible.
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Source: https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/30865-anton-de-montoro
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'El Ropero de Córdoba', converso poet of the fifteenth-century Cancioneros
Source: https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/30865-anton-de-montoro
