Gil Vicente

Gil Vicente (c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal, he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Vicente worked in Portuguese as much as he worked in Spanish and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.

Quotes
quiérome ir allá por mirar al ruiseñor cómo cantavá.'' And thither will I go, To the rosy vale, where the nightingale Sings his song of woe.
 * ''En la huerta nasce la rosa:
 * The rose looks out in the valley,
 * En la huerta nace la rosa — "The Nightingale", as translated by John Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 316

cogí rosas con sospiro: vengo del rosale. Del rosal vengo, mi madre, vengo del rosale.'' I gather'd the blushing rose—and sigh'd— I come from the rose-grove, mother, I come from the grove of roses.
 * ''Viera estar rosal florido,
 * I saw the rose-grove blushing in pride,
 * Del rosal vengo, mi madre — "I Come from the Rose-grove, Mother", as translated by J. Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 317

es de altanería.'' is like falconry.
 * ''La caza de amor
 * The pursuit of love
 * Epigraph attributed to Gil Vicente by Gabriel García Márquez in Crónica de una muerte anunciada ["Chronicle of a Death Foretold"] (1981), first page.

Porque o será de ninguém?'' Why should he o'er others rule?
 * ''Quem não é senhor de si
 * Who himself cannot control
 * Farsa dos Físicos (1512?), tr. Aubrey F. G. Bell