title: Diego Beltrán Hidalgo
text: # Diego Beltrán Hidalgo
  
  Don Diego Beltrán Hidalgo was a seventeenth century Spanish Marrano poet. The son of a Jew from Murcia, he was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish popular poetry. The following example of the roundelet is from his pen:
  
     "O no mirar ó morir decis, pensamiento amando? mas vale morir mirando que no mirando vivir."
  