[6] Tesoro del Parnaso Español of Quintana, 41-51. Biblioteca de Ribadeneyra, vol. xxxii.
[7] The Arte Poética Española, which goes under the name of Juan Diaz Rengifo, a schoolmaster of Ávila, is believed to have been written by his brother Alfonso, a Jesuit. With the addition of a dictionary of rhymes, it became the handbook of Spanish poetasters, a numerous tribe. It appeared at Salamanca in 1592.
[8] The Egemplar Poético is the first piece quoted in vol. viii. of the Parnaso Español of Sedaño, 1774.
[9] This seems the most convenient place to note that fairly ample specimens of Spanish literature will be found in the very useful collection known as the Biblioteca de Aribau, or de Ribadeneyra—seventy-one somewhat ponderous volumes printed with middling skill on poor paper. The texts are the best where few are really good, and the introductions of value. It is well indexed. I prefer to make my references to this rather than to earlier editions or better editions published by societies, and therefore not easily accessible in this country.
[10] A very interesting study of this phase of Spanish poetry, and some account of its writers, will be found in the introduction written by M. Alfred Morel-Fatio to his reprint of a Cancionero General of 1535, in his L’Espagne au XVIme. et au XVIIme. Siècle. Heilbronn, 1878.
[11] Parnaso Español of Sedaño, vol. vii.; and Ribadeneyra, vol. xxxii.; Poetas Liricos de los Siglos, xvi., xvii.
[12] Biblioteca de Ribadeneyra, vol. xxxvii., contains the work of Luis de Leon, both prose and verse, together with a selection from the papers of his trial before the Inquisition.
[13] Biblioteca de Ribadeneyra, vol. xxxii.
[14] The reference is again to Ribadeneyra, vols. xxxii., xlii.
[15] Biblioteca de Ribadeneyra, vol. xxxii.