Ferdinand de, a Spanish poet of the sixteenth century, was born at Seville about the year 1516. He was thoroughly conversant with the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French languages, and also passed for a profound theologian; but he applied himself, in preference, to poetry, and was the first of the four Spanish poets who obtained the surname of divine. Although he had taken holy orders at the age of thirty, all his verses are addressed to a distinguished lady of Andalusia, whom he celebrates under various names; but his love was as pure and platonic as that of Petrarch, whom he endeavoured to imitate, in following the footsteps of Boccan and Garcilaso. Herrera died in his native place about the year 1595. The collection of his poetry—entitled Obras de Herrera, Seville, 1619—contains sonnets, songs, lyrics, and elegies, full of spirit, grace, and expression; but his style is at times deficient in correctness. Herrera was also the author of—1. Relacion de la Guerra de Cypre y batalla de Lepanto, Seville, 1572; 2. Vida y Muerte de Thomas Moro, ibid., 1592, translated from the Latin of Stapleton; 3. An edition of the Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega, with interesting notes, Seville, 1580, in 8vo.