Diego Basurto Henríquez

Diego Basurto (Enríquez) Henríquez was a New Christian poet, the son of the Spanish dramatist, novelist, and poet Antonio Enríquez Gómez, of Portuguese Jewish origin. Henríquez was probably born in Spain and later lived with his father in Rouen, France, before settling in the Low Countries. A vicious lampoon about him was published in Antwerp in 1664. According to another New Christian poet, Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios, Henríquez was short, stout, and always carelessly dressed. Henríquez wrote a sonnet in praise of his father’s famous novel, El siglo pitagórico (The Pythagorean Century). He dedicated his longer poem, El triunpho de la virtud y paciencia de Job (Triumph of the Virtue and Patience of Job), to Anne of Austria. The poem, divided into six visions, employs a range of verse forms and interweaves sections from Psalms.