[68.—20-21.] Que... resuelta = que es voluntad suya resuelta (el) que aloje á Borbón.
[69.—22]. de un su pariente is archaic. The regular expression to-day would be de un pariente suyo.
[71.]—Juan Arolas (1805-1849) was born in Barcelona, but spent most of his life in Valencia. In 1821, when sixteen years old, Arolas, much against the wishes of his parents, joined a monastic order. Arolas wrote in all the literary genres of his time, but he distinguished himself most as a poet by his romantic "oriental" and love poems.
Cf. El P. Arolas, su vida y sus versos, Madrid, 1898, by José R. Lomba y Pedraja; Blanco García, I, 186-189; Juan Valera, Florilegio, V, 121-130. A new edition of Arolas' verses was published at Valencia in 1883.
[73.]—José de Espronceda (1808-1842), Spain's greatest romantic poet, was born in Almendralejo (Badajoz). At the Colegio de San Mateo Espronceda was considered a precocious but wayward pupil. His poetic gifts won for him the lasting friendship of his teacher, Alberto Lista. At an early age he became a member of a radical secret society, Los Numantinos. Sent into exile to a monastery in Guadalajara, he there composed the fragmentary heroic poem Pelayo. After his release he went to Lisbon and then to London. Enamored of Teresa, though another's wife, he fled with her to Paris, where he took an active part in the revolution of 1830. Espronceda returned to Spain in 1833, and engaged in journalism and politics. Worn out by his tempestuous life, he died at the early age of thirty-four years.
See [Introduction], p. xxxvii; E. Rodríguez Solís, Espronceda, su tiempo, su vida y sus obras, Madrid, 1883; Blanco García, I, 154-171; Juan Valera, Florilegio, V, 197-207; Antonio Cortón, Espronceda, Madrid, 1906; Philip H. Churchman, Espronceda's Blanca de Borbón, Revue hisp., 1907; and Byron and Espronceda, ibid., 1909. For his poems, see Obras poéticas, in the Biblioteca amena é instructiva, Barcelona, 1882; Obras poéticas y escritos en prosa, colección ordenada por D. Patricio de la Escosura, Madrid, 1884.
[79.]—José de Zorrilla (1817-1893) was born in Valladolid. After receiving his secondary education in the Jesuit Semanario de Nobles he began the study of law; but he soon turned to the more congenial pursuit of belles-lettres. In 1855 he went to Mexico where he resided eleven years. Though a most productive writer, Zorrilla spent most of his life in penury until, in his old age, he received from the government an annual pension of 30,000 reales. He became a member of the Spanish Academy in 1885, and four years later he was "crowned" in Granada. Zorrilla died in Madrid in his seventy-sixth year.
See [Introduction], p. xxxvii; an autobiography, Recuerdos del tiempo viejo, 3 vols.; Fernández Flórez, D. José Zorrilla, in Autores dramáticos contemporáneos, 1881, vol. I; Blanco García, I, 197-216; Juan Valera, Florilegio, V, 258-270. For his works, see Poesías, 8 vols., Madrid, 1838-1840; Obras, edition Baudry, 3 vols., Paris, 1852; Poesías escogidas, published by the Academia de la lengua, Madrid, 1894; Obras dramáticas y líricas, Madrid, 1895.
[85.—10.] Fantasmas = como fantasmas.
[86.]—Á Buen Juez Mejor Testigo, A Good Judge, But a Better Witness. In Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora there is a similar legend of a crucifix summoned as witness.