History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)

by George Ticknor

Lo que el sabe a de saber.

Autor.

Pienso yo que en tal defecto

Cae presto el coraçon

Del no sabio en rreligion,

Creyendo que a lo perfecto

Puede dar mas perficion.

Este mal tiene el glosar;

Luego a Dios quiere enmendar.

Oviedo, in his “Quinquagenas,” says that Diego Lopez de Haro was “the mirror of gallantry among the youth of his time”; and he is known to history for his services in the war of Granada, and as Spanish ambassador at Rome. (See Clemencin, in Mem. de la Acad. de Hist., Tom. VI. p. 404.) He figures in the “Inferno de Amor” of Sanchez de Badajoz; and his poems are found in the Cancionero General, 1573, ff. 82-90, and a few other places.