Portuguese-born author of romances and of poetry who wrote the first Spanish pastoral novel.
He probably came to Spain in 1543 with Philip II´s first wife Mary as a musician, later entering the household of Joan, daughter-in-law of John III of Portugal.
He died in unknown circumstances in the Piedmont.
His most famous literary work the pastoral novel Diana (1559?) started a literary fashion in the Renaissance that spread also to France, Germany and England where Shakespeare used Bartholomew Young´s translation as a source for The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The psychology of love depicted in Diana derives from León Hebreo and Ausiás March whose love poems Montemayor translated.
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