Juan Vélez de Guevara

Juan Crisóstomo Vélez de Guevara (Madrid, 1611 – íbid., 20 November 1675), son of Luis Vélez de Guevara, was, like his father, a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age.

Like his father Luis, Juan Vélez entered the service of the Duque de Veragua as a lawyer, and from there in 1642 succeeded his father as an Usher of the Royal Chamber. Well known in his day as a composer of short theatrical pieces, notably ''entremeses'' and ''bailes'', many of them performed at the Spanish Court, Vélez junior likewise wrote and published full-length plays such as ''El diciembre por agosto, Nuestra Señora de las Nieves'' (1637), ''Endimión y la luna'' (1656), and the zarzuela ''Los celos hacen estrella'' (1672).

He also wrote, in collaboration, ''Amor vencido de Amor'' (with Juan de Zabaleta and Antonio de la Huerta); ''La verdad en el engaño'' (with Jerónimo de Cáncer and Martínez de Meneses); the burlesque ''Los siete infantes de Lara'' (1650, with Jerónimo de Cáncer); and ''La cortesana en la sierra'' and ''El hidalgo de La Mancha'' (with Juan Bautista Diamante and Juan de Matos Fragoso). Provided by Wikipedia