(de la Vega), a celebrated Spanish poet, born of a noble family at Toledo in 1500. He was educated near the emperor Charles V. who had a particular regard for him, and whom he attended in all his military expeditions; acquiring as much renown by his courage as by his poetry. In Provence he commanded a battalion; and was killed in the 36th year of his age, by a stone thrown at his head by a countryman from a turret. He had strong natural talents for poetry; and not only extended the bounds, but introduced new beauties, into that of the Spanish language.—We must not confound this poet with another person of the same name, a native of Cusco, who wrote in Spanish a History of Florida, and of Peru and the Incas.