[923] Obras, Madrid, 1778, 8vo, Tom. I. p. 571.

[924] There is a notice of Rebolledo, which must have been prepared by his own authority, in the Preface to his “Ocios,” printed at Antwerp, 1650, 18mo; but there is a better life of him in the fifth volume of Sedano’s “Parnaso”; and his poetry, and every thing relating to him, is found in his Works printed at Madrid, 1778, 3 tom. 8vo, the first volume being in two parts. Some of his poetry falls into Gongoresque affectations. He wrote a single play, “Amar despreciando Riesgos,” which he called a tragicomedy, and which is not without merit.

[925] Ant. Luiz Ribero de Barros, “Jornada de Madrid,” Madrid, 1672, 4to; a poor miscellany of prose and verse, whose author died in 1683. (Barbosa, Bib., Tom. I. p. 313.)—Pedro Quiros, 1670, best found in Sismondi, Lit. Esp., Sevilla, 1842, Tom. II. p. 187, note; and Varflora, No. IV. p. 68.—Miguel de Barrios, “Flor de Apolo,” Bruselas, 1665, 4to, and “Coro de las Musas,” Bruselas, 1672, 18mo.—“Ociosidad Ocupada y Ocupacion Ociosa de Felix de Lucio y Espinossa,” Roma, 1674, 4to; a hundred bad sonnets. (Latassa, Bib. Nov., Tom. IV. p. 22.)—Jacinto de Evia, “Ramillete de Flores Poéticas,” Madrid, 1676, 4to, which contains other poems besides his own.—Inez de la Cruz, la Décima Musa, “Poemas,” Zaragoza, 1682-1725, 3 tom. 4to, etc.—Ant. de Solís, “Poesías,” Madrid, 1692, 4to.—Candamo, “Obras Líricas,” s. a. 18mo.—Joseph Perez de Montoro, “Obras Póstumas Lyricas, Humanas y Sagradas,” Madrid, 1736, 2 tom. 4to; not printed, I think, till that year, though their author died in 1694.—Manuel de Leon Marcante, “Obras Póstumas,” Madrid, 1733, 2 tom. 4to; where some of the villancicos, by their rudeness, not their poetry, recall Juan de la Enzina.—And, Joseph Tafalla Negrete, “Ramillete Poético,” Zaragoça, 1706, 4to; to which last add Latassa, Bib. Nueva, Tom. IV. p. 104.—Perhaps a volume printed in Valencia, 1680, 4to, and entitled “Varias Hermosas Flores del Parnaso,” will, especially if compared with the similar work of Espinosa printed in 1605, give the fairest idea of the low state of poetry at the time it appeared. It contains poems by Ant. Hurtado de Mendoza, by Solís, and by the following poets, otherwise unknown to me: namely, Francisco de la Torre y Sebil, Rodrigo Artes y Muñoz, Martin, Juan Barcelo, and Juan Bautista Aguilar;—all worthless. Of the persons mentioned in this note, the one that produced the greatest sensation, after Solís, was Inez de la Cruz,—a remarkable woman, but not a remarkable poet, who was born in Guipuzcoa in 1651, and died in the city of Mexico in 1695. Semanario Pintoresco, 1845, p. 12.

[926] I possess, I believe, works of more than one hundred and twenty lyric poets of this period.

Transcriber’s note

p. [57]: Sesa → Sessa
pp. [283], [424]: Benevente → Benavente
pp. [359], [360]: Copacobana → Copacabana