Amarilis (fl. 17th c.)
Amarilis (fl. 17th c.)
Peruvian poet. Fl. in 17th century in Huanuco, Peru; may have been Doña Maria de Alvarado, a descendant of the explorer Alvarado.
Sent her verses to Spanish poet Lope de Vega and he responded with his Epístola a Belardo, published in his Filomena (1621); some attribute her poems to de Vega himself.
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