Juan Bautista Diamante (1640?–1684?),
Spanish dramatist, was born at
Castillo about 1640, entered the army, and began writing for the stage in 1657. He became a
knight of Santiago in 1660; the date of his death is unknown, but no reference to him as a living author occurs after 1684. The originality of Diamante's work has been questioned by critics; La Desgraciada Raquel, which was long considered to be his best play, is really
Mira de Amescua's Judia de Toledo under another title; and the earliest of Diamante's surviving pieces, El Honrador de su padre (1658), is little more than a free translation of
Corneille's
Le Cid. Diamante is historically interesting as the introducer of French dramatic methods into Spain.
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