Antonio de Zamora
Antonio de Zamora (Madrid, November 1, 1660 - Ocaña, December 7, 1727) was a Spanish playwright. Biography In 1689, he already held a post within the Ministry for the Indies, New Spain department. He was a friend of the playwright Francisco Bances Candamo, whom he replaced as the government's official poet in 1694. In 1696 the city council of Madrid hired him as composer of the "Hieroglyphs for the tomb of the Queen Mother, Mariana", performed during the funeral rites on May 19 at the convent of Santo Domingo el Real; 1698 he became a chamberlain of King Charles II. The city council also entrusted him with the inscriptions on the King's catafalque in the same church, and he composed his funeral rites in verse. Finally, in honour of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, crown prince of France and father of Philip V of Spain, he was commissioned to write the "Hieroglyphics" in 1711. A fervent supporter of the House of Bourbon during the War of the Spanish Succession, he was forced to hide from pro-Austrian supporters. He celebrated Philip V's entrance into Madrid with the sacramental ordinance The marriage suit of body and soul, which followed the precedent of Pedro