Transcriber's Notes:
Symbol inverted asterism (three asterisks arranged as inverted triangle) is presented as ⁂ (asterism) in this e-text.
In this book, there are Footnotes (marked with letters) and Endnotes (marked with numbers). In the original book, the footnotes are located at the bottom of the relevant pages and the endnotes are located in the Appendix. In this e-book, the footnotes are relocated to the end of the book, after the Appendix.
Obvious printer's errors have been repaired, other inconsistent spellings have been kept, including inconsistent use of hyphen (e.g. "by-gone" and "bygone") and diacritical marks (e.g. "Góngora," "Gongora," and "Gongóra).