- ENRÍQUEZ (Henriquez) BASURTO, DIEGO
- ENRÍQUEZ (Henriquez) BASURTO, DIEGO (b. 1621), marrano poet, son of Antonio Enríquez gomez . Probably born in Spain, he lived with his father in Rouen, France, and later moved to the Low Countries. Apparently while in Antwerp, Enríquez was the target of a vicious lampoon written in 1664. Enríquez wrote a sonnet in praise of his father's Siglo pitagórico. A longer poem, El Triunpho de la Virtud y Paciencia de Job, dedicated to Anne of Austria, employs a variety of verse forms and is divided into six "visions," with intercalated portions of the Psalms (Rouen, 1649). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Roth, Marranos, 246, 333; Kayserling, Bibl, 26; Barrera, Catálogo del teatro antiguo español (1860), 136; I.S. Revah, Spinoza et le Dr. Juan de Prado (1959), 24, 74–76. (Kenneth R. Scholberg)
Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.