FOOTNOTES:
[1] Imparcial de Madrid, December 3, 1901.
[2] Notices of the appearance of this paper and of Sanz's resignation will be found in La Guía of January 3 and 4, 1849.
[3] The original manuscript of this play is preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid. At the end of Act I appears the date Junio 13, 1854. At the end of the second Julio 5, 1854, and on the last sheet Setiembre 25, 1854.
[4] All the papers relating to Sanz's diplomatic career are preserved in the Archivo del Ministerio del Estado. They were collected at the instance of his "widow," who desired that she be accorded a pension in keeping with the dignity of the posts held by her distinguished husband. The papers are filed under Personal Español, Letra S, Año 1853. Número 159. Expediente relativo a Sanz, don Eulogio Florentino.
[5] Pedro is Don Pedro Calvo Asensio, the editor-in-chief of La Iberia, in which the poem first appeared. It was later republished in 1881 in the "Almanaque de La Iberia."
[6] Cf. La Iberia, May 22, 1857.
[7] "Obras En Verso y Prosa de Don Francisco Zea." Madrid, pp. 552, 556.
[8] Philip II had married his daughter, the infanta Catalina, to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy.
[9] Avisos de 11 de Diciembre de 1640.