Francisco Agustín Tárrega

Francisco Agustín Tárrega (c. 1555 – 7 November 1602) was a Spanish clergyman, poet and playwright.

Biography After graduating in the Arts from the University of Valencia in 1575, he went on to obtain his doctorate in Canon law from the University of Salamanca in 1578.

Tárrega was of the co-founders, in 1591, of the Academia de los Nocturnos (Literary Society of the Night Revelers), one of the first academia literarias created in Spain, ) Las suertes trocadas y torneo venturoso La enemiga favorable (before 1606) La duquesa constante (1596? ) El esposo fingido La fundación de la Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced (c. 1602)