l. 15. There is an English poetical version of this sonnet by J. Y. Gibson. Voiture’s French Rondeau: Ma foy, c’est fait de moy, car Isabeau, is of the same class of literature. Cf. Iriarte’s sonnet, [p. 227].
[JOSÉ DE VALDIVIELSO (or VALDIVIESO)]. The author of some autos sacramentales and of a long poetical Vida de San José, but chiefly noteworthy as a writer of melodious religious lyrics. Cf. his Romancero espiritual, Madrid, 1880.
[PEDRO DE ESPINOSA]. The editor of an anthology of lyrics,—Flores de poetas ilustres de España, 1605 (see the reprint in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. 42)—and himself a lyric and narrative poet of some merit. He includes some of his own lyrics in the Flores, along with selected poems of some thirty-five other 371 writers. The idyll, La fábrica del Genil, is printed in full in vol. 29 of the Biblioteca de autores españoles.
[RODRIGO CARO]. An antiquarian and the probable author of the ode on Itálica—a Roman city near Seville—which was long attributed to Rioja (cf. [p. 170]). Cf. Sismondi, Historia de la literatura española (Spanish translation), Seville, 1842, vol. II, p. 173; R. Caro, Obras inéditas, Seville, 1885.
[JUAN DE JÁUREGUI]. Noted for his excellent Spanish version of Tasso’s Aminta, Jáuregui was at first a bitter opponent of Gongorism, as appears in the preface to his Rimas (1618). In his later narrative poem Orfeo, and in his translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia, he succumbed to the influence of that very style. The silva from which a selection is given here is his best lyric. Cf. vol. II, pp. 18 ff. of the Líricos del siglo XVI in the Biblioteca de autores españoles; Ticknor, III, 33 ff.
[FRANCISCO GÓMEZ DE QUEVEDO]. Quevedo played an important part in the public life of his time, but is famous mainly for his picaresque novel, El gran tacaño, and for his mordant satirical poems. At first he sought to stem the tide of Gongorism, but in his later works he let himself float with the current. See his poems in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. 69, and cf. Ticknor II, 274 ff; E. Mérimée, Essai sur la vie et les œuvres de Francisco de Quevedo, Paris, 1886. His collected works are now being published by the Sociedad de bibliófilos andaluces.
[Page 159].—l. 18. Cf. a similar poem by Hita in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. 57, p. 241.
[Page 160].—l. 28. Doña Blanca de Castilla: daughter of Alfonso IX. of Castille, wife of Louis XIII. of France, mother of St. Louis; died in 1252. She wielded much influence in state affairs.
l. 33. This stanza illustrates Quevedo’s tendency toward cultism and conceits.
[Page 162].—l. 12. Ovidio Nasón: a pun on Ovid’s name, due to its resemblance to Latin nasus.