Luis de Góngora

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About Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorismo. This style apparently existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's conceptismo, though Quevedo was highly influenced by his older rival from whom he may have isolated "conceptismo" elements. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 11.

Before fame

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Trivia

Spanish cleric and poet (died 1627). This page is tagged with Arts & Letters, Historical, Spanish, July 11.

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Source note

This profile is part of the July 11 birthday archive. It was last updated on July 10, 2026 and is prepared for source-level database review.