l. 34. Torres Naharro: one of the most important of the early Spanish dramatists. His plays were published at Naples in 1517. Following the rule of Horace, he was the first to divide the Spanish drama into five acts. Despite the large Italian influence upon him, he is here made an opponent of the Italian movement in Spain.
[Page 77].—l. 5. Boscán: cf. [note to p. 67].
l. 6. Garcilaso: cf. [note to p. 70]. The praise here given is, of course, ironical.
l. 22. desmandados, astray.
[Page 78].—l. 10. Luis de Haro: although Castillejo singles this personage out as a leading Italianate, little is known of him. The few poems ascribed to him in the Cancionero of Nájera (1554) hardly justify the importance here given to him. Cf. Ticknor, I, 461, note.
l. 13. el otro: seemingly, Luis de Haro; but Garcilaso also figured in the campaign against the Sultan.—Solimán: Solimán II, Sultan from 1520 to 1566.
[GREGORIO DE SILVESTRE]. A Portuguese, organist of the cathedral at Granada. He imitated Castillejo in abusing the Italianates, yet he later wrote in the foreign manner. Simplicity of expression and considerable finish of form are the chief characteristics of his verse. Cf. Ticknor, I, 465 f.; Garcia Peres, Catálogo de los autores portugueses que escribieron en castellano, Madrid, 1890. His verse is in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. 32.
[Page 78].—l. 23-24. Cf. [p. 77], ll. 5 ff. Castillejo’s praise was rather sarcastic.
[Page 80].—l. 17. Guarte: i.e., guárdate.
[JORGE DE MONTEMAYOR]. Also a Portuguese, and originally named Montemôr. He is famous as the author of the prose pastoral romance Diana Enamorada. He wrote a good deal of verse in Spanish—satires, elegies, ballads, lyrics, etc.—that may be found in his Cancioneros (Antwerp, 1554, etc.). Cf. G. Schönnherr, Jorge de Montemayor, etc., Halle, 1886.