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Francisco de Figueroa (c. 1530 - c. 1588) was a Spanish poet best known for his love sonnets and his bilingual compositions in Spanish and Italian. Born in Alcalá de Henares, Figueroa spent his early years in Alcala, studying under Spanish humanist Ambrosio Morales, and traveled to Italy at an early age (we find him in Siena in 1552). For much of his life, Figueroa served as an aide to Spanish diplomats; for example, to the Spanish ambassador to France, Tomás Perrenot de Granvela (1559-61); Antonio Pimentel de Herrera, 6th Count of Benavente, Viceroy of Valencia (c. 1567); and Carlos de Aragón Tagliavia, Duke of Terranova, Prínce of Castelvetrano (1578-79). In the late 1570s or early 1580s, Figueroa seems to have retired to Alcala. His friend Miguel de Cervantes includes him as a character in his pastoral novel La Galatea. Figueroa's works were published posthumously by Pedro Craesbeeck in Lisbon in 1625.)

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Soneto Xvii

Perdido ando, señora, entre la gente,
sin vos, sin mí, sin ser, sin Dios, sin vida;
sin vos, porque no sois de mí servida;
sin mí, porque no estoy con vos presente;

sin ser, porque de vos estando ausente
no hay cosa que del ser no me despida;
sin Dios, porque mi alma a Dios olvida
por contemplar en vos continuamente;

sin vida, porque ya que haya vivido,
cien mil veces mejor morir me fuera
que no un dolor tan grave y tan extraño.

¡Que preso yo por vos, por vos herido,
y muerto yo por vos d'esta manera,
estéis tan descuidada de mi daño!

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