[130] The Maestro Garay, praised as a divino ingenio in Lope de Vega's Arcadia, is represented by a glosa, a copy of redondillas, and five sonnets in Manuel Rivadeneyra's Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. xlii., pp. 510-511.
[131] Cervantes's praise of the Maestro Córdoba is confirmed by Lope de Vega in the Laurel de Apolo (silva iv.):—
Hoy á las puertas de su templo llama
Una justa memoria,
Digna de honor y gloria,
Antes que pase el alto Guadarrama,
Que mi maestro Córdoba me ofrece,
Y las musas latinas me dan voces,
Pues con tan justa causa la merece.
[132] Francisco Díaz, lecturer on philosophy and medicine at the University of Alcalá de Henares, published a Compendio de Cirujia (Madrid, 1575). In 1588 Cervantes contributed a complimentary sonnet to Díaz' treatise on kidney disease: Tratado nuevamente impreso acerca de las enfermedades de los riñones. The occasion is certainly singular. It does not seem that Díaz himself published any verse.
[133] No trace of Luján's writings has, to my knowledge, been discovered. It seems unlikely that Cervantes can refer to the Pedro de Luján whose Coloquios matrimoniales were published at Seville as early as 1550: see Gallardo, op. cit., vol. iii., col. 553.
[134] A prefatory sonnet by Juan de Vergara is found in López Maldonado's Cancionero: see note 23.
[135] It may be to this writer that Agustín de Rojas Villandrando alludes in the Viaje entretenido (1603):—
De los farsantes que han hecho
farsas, loas, bayles, letras
son Alonso de Morales,
Grajales, Zorita Mesa, etc.
Two romances by an Alonso de Morales are given in Rivadeneyra, vol. xvi., p. 248.
[136] This prophecy has not been fulfilled: Hernando Maldonado's writings appear to be lost.