Juan

( Don ), a hero of the sixteenth century, a natural son of Charles-quint, born at Rat is bonne, in 1545. He conquered the Moors of Grana´da, won a great naval victory over the Turks at Lepanto, made himself master of Tunis, and put down the insurgents of the Netherlands (1545-1578). This is the Don Juan of C. Delavigne’s drama entitled Don Juan d’Autriche (1835). Juan ( Don ), son of Don Louis Tenorio, of Sicily, a heartle roué . His valet says of him: “Tu vois en don Juan le plus grand scélérat que la terre ait jamais porté, un enragé, un chien, un démon, un Turc, un hérétique qui ne croit ni ciel, ni enfer, in diable, qui pa e cette vie en véritable bête brute, un pourceau d’Epicure, un vrai Sardana pale; qui fer me l’oreille à toutes les rem on trances qu’on lui peut faire, et traite de bille-vesées tout ce que nous croyons.”—Molière, Don Juan , i. 1 (1665). Juan ( Don ), a native of Seville, son of Don Josê and Donna Inez (a blue stocking). When Juan was 16 years old, he got into trouble with Donna Julia, and was sent by his mother (then a widow) on his travels. His adventures form the story of a poem so called; but the tale is left incomplete.—Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819-21). Juan ( Don ). The hero of Richard Mans field’s play bearing this title, is a gay youth, wild with the joys of liberty to which he is unaccustomed; saucy, audacious and winning, bent upon getting for himself all the pleasure life offers the young. He is tender, inconstant, brave, chivalric, irresponsible, and gains dignity by dying heroically (1891). Juan ( Don ), or Don Giovanni, the prince of libertines. The original of this character was Don Juan Tenorio, of Seville, who attempted the seduction of the governor’s daughter; and the father, forcing the libertine to a duel, fell. A statue of the murdered father was erected in the family vault; and one day when Don Juan forced his way into the vault, he invited the statue to a banquet. The statue accordingly placed itself at the board, to the amazement of the host, and, compelling the libertine to follow, delivered him over to devils, who carried him off triumphant. Dramatized first by Gabriel Tellez (1626). Molière (1665) and Thomas Corneille, in Le Festin de Pierre , both imitated from the Spanish (1673), have made it the subject of French comedies; Gold on i (1765), of an Italian comedy; Glück, of a musical ballet (1765); Mozart, of an opera called Don Giovanni (1787), a princely work.