Fernando de Herrera

Fernando de Herrera (c. 1534–1597), known as El Divino, was a Sevillian poet of Spain's Golden Age. An admirer of Italian poetry, the classics and the Bible, he found inspiration in the verse of Garcilaso de la Vega. From around 1559 he frequented the literary circle of the Count of Gelves, whose wife Leonor de Milán inspired his Petrarchan love poetry.

His patriotic canciones celebrated contemporary Spanish commanders and campaigns, and he published an influential commentary on Garcilaso's verse. After Leonor's death in 1581 he turned to prose works until his death in 1597.