The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Bermudez, Geronimo

BERMUDEZ, Geronimo, a Spanish poet, born in Galicia about 1530, died about 1589. He belonged to the order of St. Dominic, and was professor of theology at Salamanca. He published at Madrid in 1577, under the name of Antonio de Silva, two tragedies upon the subject of Inez de Castro, Nise Lastimosa and Nise Laureada. The former is much the finer poem, and has passages of great poetical merit. He also published a poem originally written in Latin, and translated by himself into Spanish, entitled La Hesperoida, of which the duke of Alva was the hero.