Hortensio Félix Paravicino

Portrait of Fray Hortensio Félix Paravacino by El Greco circa 1609. Hortensio Félix Paravicino y Arteaga (12 October 1580 – 12 December 1633) was a Spanish preacher and Culteranismo Baroque poet from the noble house of Pallavicini.

Life He was born in Madrid and was educated at the Jesuit college in Ocaña, and on April 18, 1600, joined the Trinitarian Order. A sermon pronounced before Philip III at Salamanca in 1605 brought Paravicino into notice; he rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important foreign missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the death of Philip III in 1621, delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy.

His (1638-1641) makes use of extravagant tropes and metaphors. His (1641) include his devout and secular poems, as well as a play entitled ;

In film Fernando Fernández de Córdoba played Paravicino in the 1947 historic drama Lady in Ermine.