Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (August 1562 – February 4, 1631) was a Spanish poet and historian.
Biography
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola was baptized at Barbastro on August 26, 1562. He studied at Huesca, took orders, and became a protégé of Fernando de Gurrea y Aragón, 5th Duke de Villahermosa. He was presented to the rectory of Villahermosa in 1588. He was attached to the suite of the count de Lemos, viceroy of Naples, in 1610, and succeeded his brother Lupercio as historiographer of Aragon in 1613. He died at Saragossa on February 4, 1631.
