Berceo, Gonzalo De
Related Category: Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Biographies
(gōnthä´lō
thā bārthā´ō), c.1198–1265?, earliest known Spanish medieval poet. He was a religious in a Benedictine monastery who wrote prolifically on saints and other figures important in the history of the church. His devotion to the Virgin is expressed in 25 poems entitled
Milagros de Nuestra Señora [miracles of Our Lady] (c.1245–60).
