The New International Encyclopædia/Diamante, Juan Bautista

​DIAMANTE, dē̇′ȧ-män′tā̇, Juan Bautista (c.1626—c.1690). A Spanish dramatist. He was born in Madrid, where about one-half of the fifty plays written by him and still extant were published in book-form (2 vols., 1670 and 1679). His best work is the tragedy entitled El honrador de su padre. Among his other pieces La judía de Toledo has probably enjoyed the greatest popularity. He was a knight of Saint John of Jerusalem and probably, like Calderon, Lope de Vega, and several other celebrated poets, spent the closing years of his life in the midst of his brotherhood.

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