From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Juan Jose Marti
Juan Jose Marti
Juan Jose Marti (1570[citation needed]-1604), Spanish novel- to Don Quixote; but he died before the first part of Don
ist, was born at Orihuela, Province of Alicante about 1570. Quixote was published (1605).
He graduated as bachelor of canon law at Valencia in
1591, and in 1598 took his degree as doctor of canon law;
in the latter year he was appointed co-examiner in canon
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law at the University of Valencia, and held the post for • This article incorporates text from a publication
six years. He died in Valencia, and was buried in Valencia now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed
Cathedra on the 22nd of December 1604. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge
Marti joined the Valencian Academia de los no- University Press.
clurnos, under the name of Atrevimiento, but is best Persondata
known by another pseudonym, Mateo Luján de Sayave- Name Marti, Juan Jose
dra, under which he issued an apocryphal continuation
(1602) of Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599). Marti ob- Alternative names
tained access to Alemán’s unfinished manuscript, and Short description
stole some of his ideas; this dishonesty lends point to the Date of birth
sarcastic congratulations which Alemán, in the genuine
Place of birth
sequel (1604) pays to his rival’s sallies: "I greatly envy
them, and should be proud that they were mine." Marti’s Date of death 1604
book is clever, but the circumstances in which it was pro- Place of death
duced account for its cold reception and afford presump-
tion that the best scenes are not original.
It has been suggested that Marti is identical with
Avellaneda, the writer of a spurious continuation (1614)
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