CARRILLO Y SOTOMAYOR, LUIS

born 1583?, Crdoba, Spain died 1610, Puerto de Santo Mara Spanish poet known as the chief exponent of culteranismo, which developed from the highly ornate and rhetorical style gongorismo, originated by the poet Luis de Gngora. In Carrillo's treatise on poetry, Libro de la erudicin potica (mod. ed., 1946), he attempted to justify his methods by claiming the merits of obscurity in poetry. Although his life was short and his output small, he is considered to have written several fine poems. The ambitious Fbula de Acis y Galatea is his best-known work. His work was published, edited not too carefully, by his brother Alonso in 1611 and reedited in 1613.