CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME THIRD.

SECOND PERIOD.
(Continued.)

CHAPTER XXXI.
Satirical Poetry, Epistolary, Elegiac, Pastoral, Epigrammatic, Didactic, and Descriptive.
Satirical Poetry 3
Mendoza, Boscan 3
Castillejo, Montemayor 4
Padilla, Cantorál 4
Murillo, Artieda 4
Barahona de Soto 4
Juan de Jauregui 4
The Argensolas 5
Quevedo, Góngora 5
Cervantes, Espinel 6
Arguijo, Rioja 6
Salcedo, Ulloa, Melo 6
Rebolledo, Solís 6
Satire discouraged 7
Elegiac Poetry 8
Garcilasso 8
Figueroa, Silvestre 9
Cantorál, the Argensolas 9
Borja, Herrera 9
Rioja, Quevedo 9
Villegas 9
Elegy does not succeed 9
Pastoral Poetry 10
Garcilasso, Boscan, Mendoza 10
Figueroa, Cantorál 10
Montemayor 10
Saa de Miranda 10
Polo, Balbuena 12
Barahona de Soto 12
Padilla, Silvestre 12
Pedro de Enzinas 12
Morales, Tapia 13
Balvas, Villegas 13
Carrillo, Esquilache 13
Quevedo, Espinosa 13
Soto de Roxas, Zarate 13
Ulloa, Los Reyes 13
Barrios, Inez de la Cruz 13
Pastorals successful 14
Epigrams, amatory 14
Maldonado, Silvestre 15
Villegas, Góngora 15
Camoens, Argensolas 15
Villegas, Quevedo 15
Esquilache 15
Francisco de la Torre 15
Rebolledo 16
Didactic Poetry 17
Earliest 17
In the Cancioneros 17
Boscan, Silvestre, Mendoza 17
Guzman, Aldana, Rufo 19
Virues, Cantorál 19
Morillo, Salas 19
Argensola, Artieda 19
Mesa, Espinel 19
Juan de la Cueva 20
Pablo de Céspedes 20
Lope de Vega 22
Rebolledo, Trapeza 22
Emblems 22
Daza, Covarrubias 22
Descriptive Poetry 23
Dicastillo 23
Didactic Poetry fails 23
CHAPTER XXXII.
Ballad Poetry.
Effect of the Romanceros 25
Lorenzo de Sepúlveda 26
Alonso de Fuentes 27
Juan de Timoneda 29
Pedro de Padilla 30
Juan de la Cueva 31
Ginés Perez de Hita 31
Hidalgo, Valdivielso 31
Lope de Vega 32
Arellano 32
Roca y Serna, Esquilache 33
Mendoza, Quevedo 33
Silva de Romances 33
Los Doce Pares 34
Romancero del Cid 34
Primavera de Perez 34
Esquilache 35
Silvestre, Montemayor 35
Espinel, Castillejo 35
Lopez de Maldonado 35
Góngora, Arteaga 35
Villamediana, Coronel 35
Cervantes, Lope de Vega 36
Fereira, Alarcon 36
Diego de la Chica 36
Universal Love of Ballads 37
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Romantic Fiction. — Prose Pastorals.
Romances of Chivalry 38
Changed Taste 39
Seen in Pastoral Fictions 39
Shepherd’s Life in Spain 39
Sannazaro in Italy 40
Montemayor 41
His Diana Enamorada 41
Continued by Perez 43
And by Gil Polo 44
Antonio de Lo Frasso 45
Luis Galvez de Montalvo 46
His Fílida 46
Cervantes 47
Bartolomé de Enciso 47
Bovadilla 48
Bernardo de la Vega 48
Lope de Vega 49
Bernardo de Balbuena 49
His Siglo de Oro 49
Suarez de Figueroa 50
His Amaryllis and Pastor Fido 50
Adorno, Botelho 51
Quintana, Cuevas 51
Corral, Saavedra 51
Popularity of Pastorals 52
Their Incongruities 53
Their Foundation 54
Their Failure 54
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Romantic Fiction, continued. — Stories in the Gusto Picaresco.
Their Origin 55
Military Life 56
Contempt for honest Labor 56
Feeling of the lower Classes 57
The Pícaros 58
Lazarillo de Tórmes 58
Mateo Aleman 59
His Guzman de Alfarache 59
Spurious Second Part 61
Genuine Second Part 61
Andreas Perez 66
His Pícara Justina 67
Drama and Short Tales 67
Vicente Espinel 67
His Marcos de Obregon 68
Yañez y Rivera 71
His Alonso 71
Quevedo, Solorzano 72
Enriquez Gomez 73
Estevanillo Gonzalez 74
Success of Pícaro Stories 75
CHAPTER XXXV.
Romantic Fiction, continued. — Serious and Historical Romances.
Early Specimens 76
Juan de Flores 77
Nuñez de Reinoso 77
Luzindaro y Medusina 77
Hierónimo de Contreras 78
Relations with Italy and Algiers 79
Ginés Perez de Hita 79
His Guerras de Granada 79
Not imitated 84
La Cryselia de Lidaceli 86
Benito Remigio Noydens 86
Gonzalo de Céspedes 87
Cervantes, Lamarca 87
Dos Verdaderos Amigos 88
Valladares de Valdelomar 88
Grave Fictions discouraged 89
Cosmé de Texada 90
Christóval Lozano 91
Serious Fictions not successful 92
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Romantic Fiction, concluded. — Tales.
Arise from the State of Society 93
Antonio de Villegas 93
His Story of Narvaez 94
Juan de Timoneda 96
His Patrañuelo 97
Cervantes, Hidalgo 99
Suarez, Figueroa 99
Salas Barbadillo 99
Eslava, Agreda 102
Liñan y Verdugo 103
Lope de Vega 103
Salazar, Lugo, Camerino 103
Changed Form of Tales 104
Tirso de Molina 104
Montalvan 105
Matias de los Reyes 106
Fernandez y Peralta 106
Montalvan 106
Céspedes y Meneses, Moya 107
Castro y Anaya 107
Mariana de Carbajal 107
María de Zayas 108
Mata, Castillo, Lozano 108
Solorzano 108
Alcalá, Villalpando, Prado 109
Isidro de Robles 109
Luis Velez de Guevara 110
Jacinto Polo 111
Marcos Garcia 112
Francisco Santos 113
Tales everywhere 117
Early Appearance of Romantic Fiction 118
Its early Decay 119
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Eloquence. — Epistolary Correspondence.
Forensic Eloquence little cultivated 121
Courts of Justice 121
Cortes 121
Eloquence of the Pulpit 122
Luis de Leon 123
Luis de Granada 123
Cultismo in the Pulpit 127
Paravicino 127
Pulpit Eloquence fails 128
Letter-writers formal 128
Queen Isabella, Columbus 128
Guevara, Avila 129
Zurita and his Friends 129
Antonio Perez 130
Santa Teresa 135
Argensola, Lope de Vega 136
Quevedo, Cascales 136
Antonio, Solís 136
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Historical Composition.
Fathers of Spanish History 138
Gerónimo de Zurita 138
Ambrosio de Morales 141
Diego de Mendoza 142
Ribadeneyra, Siguenza 142
Juan de Mariana 143
His Persecutions 146
His History of Spain 147
Prudencio Sandoval 151
Spanish Discoveries and Conquests 153
Antonio de Herrera 153
Bartolomé de Argensola 155
Garcilasso de la Vega, Inca 155
Francisco de Moncada 159
Coloma, Marquis of Espinar 160
Manuel Melo 161
Saavedra Faxardo 164
Antonio Solís 164
Character of Spanish History 167
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Didactic Prose.
Proverbs 169
Oldest 170
Marquis of Santillana 170
Garay, Valles, Nuñez 171
Mal Lara, Palmireno 172
Oudin, Sorapan, Cejudo 172
Juan de Yriarte 173
Great Number of Proverbs 173
Didactic Prose 174
Antonio de Torquemada 174
Christóval de Acosta 175
Luis de Granada 176
Juan de la Cruz 178
Santa Teresa 179
School of Spiritualists 180
Malon de Chaide 180
Agustin de Roxas 181
Suarez de Figueroa 183
Marquez, Vera y Zuñiga 184
Fernandez de Navarrete 184
Saavedra Faxardo 185
Quevedo, Antonio de Vega 186
Nieremberg, Benavente 186
Guzman, Dantisco 187
Andrada, Villalobos 188
Aleman, Faria y Sousa 188
Francisco de Andrade 189
Cultismo in Spanish Prose 190
Paravicino 191
Baltazar Gracian 191
Cultismo prevails 194
Juan de Zabaleta 194
Lozano, Heredia, Ramirez 195
Small Success of Didactic Prose 196
CHAPTER XL.
Concluding Remarks on the Period.
Decay of the Spanish Character 198
Charles the Fifth, Philip the Second 199
Philip the Third 200
Philip the Fourth 201
Charles the Second 203
Degradation of the Country 203
Religion sinks into Bigotry 204
Loyalty sinks into Servility 207
Literature fails with Character 209

THIRD PERIOD.

The Literature that existed in Spain between the Accession of the Bourbon Family and the Invasion of Bonaparte; or from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Part of the Nineteenth.

CHAPTER I.
Reign of Philip the Fifth.
Death of Charles the Second 213
His Will 214
War of the Succession 214
Peace of Utrecht 214
Philip the Fifth 215
Academy of the Language 216
State of the Language 217
Dictionaries of the Language 219
Dictionary of the Academy 219
Its Orthography 220
Its Grammar 221
Its other Labors 223
Other Academies 223
State of Poetry 224
Moraes 225
Reynosa, Cevallos 226
Lobo, Benegasi 227
Alvarez de Toledo 228
Antonio Muñoz 228
Sagradas’s Flores 228
Jorge de Pitillas 229
CHAPTER II.
Reign of Philip the Fifth, concluded.
Marquis of San Phelipe 230
French Influences 232
Translations from the French 233
Ignacio de Luzan 233
Elder Works on Criticism 235
Enzina, Rengifo, Lopez 236
Cascales, Salas 236
Luzan’s Poética 237
State of the Moral and Physical Sciences 239
State of the Universities 240
Low State of Spanish Culture 240
Benito Feyjoó 242
His Teatro Crítico 244
His Cartas Eruditas 244
Effect of his Works 245
CHAPTER III.
Reigns of Philip the Fifth and Ferdinand the Sixth.
The Inquisition 246
Intolerance 247
Autos da Fé and Judaism 248
Culture under Ferdinand 249
The Inquisition 249
Policy of the State 250
Condition of Letters 250
Saldueña, Moraleja, Ortiz 250
Academy of Good Taste 251
Velazquez 251
Mayans y Siscar 252
Blas Nasarre 253
CHAPTER IV.
Reign of Charles the Third.
State of the Country 254
Character of the King 255
The Jesuits 256
The Universities 256
The Inquisition 257
Dawn of Better Things 258
Father Isla 258
His Juventud Triunfante 258
His Dia Grande 259
His Sermones 260
His Fray Gerundio 260
His Exile 264
His Cicero 265
His Translation of Gil Blas 266
Question of its Authorship 266
Efforts to restore the Old School 270
Sedano, Sanchez, Sarmiento 271
Efforts to encourage the French School 272
Moratin the Elder 272
Club of Men of Letters 274
Cadahalso 275
Yriarte 277
His Fables 279
Samaniego 280
His Fables 281
Arroyal, Montengon 282
Salas, Meras, Noroña 282
CHAPTER V.
School of Salamanca and other Poets. — Reign of Charles the Fourth.
State of Literary Parties 285
Melendez Valdes 285
His Works 287
His Exile and Death 291
Gonzalez 293
Forner 294
Iglesias 294
Cienfuegos 295
Jovellanos 297
Connected with Melendez 298
His Political Services 299
His Exiles 300
His Share in the Revolution 301
His Death 303
His Character 304
Muñoz 305
Escoiquiz 306
Moratin the Younger 307
His Relations to Godoy 308
Quintana 309
CHAPTER VI.
The Theatre in the Eighteenth Century.
Important Movement 312
Translations from the French 312
Cañizares, Torres, Lobo 313
Lower Classes rule 313
The old Court-yards 314
The new Theatres 314
The Opera 315
Castro, Añerbe, Montiano 316
The Virginia and Athaulpho 317
Translations from the French 318
The Petimetra of Moratin the Elder 318
His Hormesinda 319
His Guzman el Bueno 319
Cadahalso 319
Sebastian y Latre 320
Yriarte, Melendez 321
Ayala 321
Huerta 322
Jovellanos 323
Autos suppressed 324
Low State of the Theatre 325
Ramon de la Cruz 326
Sedano, Lassala, Cortés 329
Cienfuegos, Huerta 329
Discussions 330
Valladares, Zavala 331
Comella 332
Moratin the Younger 333
Patronized by Godoy 334
His first Play 335
His Nueva Comedia 336
His Baron and Mogigata 337
His Sí de las Niñas 338
His Translations 339
State of the Drama 340
Actors of Note 340
State of the Theatre 341
Prospects 341
CHAPTER VII.
Reigns of Charles the Fourth and Ferdinand the Seventh. — Conclusion.
Charles the Fourth and Godoy 343
French Revolution 343
Index Expurgatorius 344
Affair of the Escurial 345
Abdication 345
French Invasion 345
French expelled 346
Ferdinand the Seventh 346
Effect of the Times on Letters 347
Interregnum in Culture 349
Revival of Letters 349
Prospects for the Future 350
APPENDIX, A.
Origin of the Spanish Language.
Spain and its Name 355
The Iberians in Spain 356
The Celts 357
The Celtiberians 358
The Phœnicians 358
The Carthaginians 359
The Romans 360
Their Colonies 362
Their Language 363
Their Writers 364
Christianity introduced 365
Its Effects on the Language 366
Irruption of the Northern Tribes 368
The Franks, Vandali, etc. 369
The Goths 369
Their Culture 370
Their Effect on the Language 371
The Arabs 372
Their Invasion 373
Their Effect on the Provençal 374
Their Refinement 375
The Christians and Pelayo 376
The Mozárabes 377
Their Influence 378
Their Reunion 379
The Language of the North 380
How modified 381
First written Spanish 382
Carta Puebla de Avilés 383
The Romance 384
The Spanish or Castilian 384
Materials that compose it 385
Its rapid Prevalence 386
APPENDIX, B.
The Romanceros.
Ballads on separate Sheets 388
Oldest Ballad-book 389
That of Antwerp 390
Other early Ballad-books 392
Ballad-book in Nine Parts 392
Romancero General 393
Early Selections from the Romanceros 394
Recent Selections 395
What is still wanted 396
APPENDIX, C.
Fernan Gomez de Cibdareal and the Centon Epistolario.
Suggestions on its Genuineness 397
Probably a Forgery 398
No such Person mentioned early 398
No Manuscript of the Letters 398
Date of the earliest Edition false 398
Second Edition admits it 398
No Date to the Letters at first 399
Their Style 399
That of the First Edition 399
Misstatements about Juan de Mena 399
About Barrientos 400
About Alvaro de Luna 401
Appeared in an Age of Forgeries 402
State of the Question 403
APPENDIX, D.
The Buscapié.
Statement by Los Rios 404
By Ruydiaz 405
Effect of their Statements 406
Don Adolfo de Castro 406
Publishes a Buscapié 406
What it is 407
Contradicts Los Rios and Ruydiaz 408
Its long Concealment suspicious 408
Its External Evidence 409
Argote de Molina 409
The Duke of Lafões 410
Don Pascual de Gándara 411
Its Internal Evidence 411
Resemblances to the Style of Cervantes 411
Mistake about Enzinas 412
About an old Proverb 413
Its Title-page 414
Its Notice of Alcalá 414
State of the Question 415
APPENDIX, E.
Editions, Translations, and Imitations of the Don Quixote.
First Part 416
Second Part 417
Both Parts 417
Lord Carteret’s Edition 417
That of the Academy 418
Of Bowle 418
Of Pellicer 418
Of Clemencin 419
Translations 419
Imitations out of Spain 420
In Spain 421
Its Fame everywhere 422
APPENDIX, F.
Early Collections of Old Spanish Plays.
Comedias de Diferentes Autores 423
Comedias Nuevas Escogidas 424
Various smaller Collections 426
APPENDIX, G.
On the Origin of Cultismo.
Controversy about it in Italy 427
Bettinelli and Tiraboschi 427
Spanish Jesuits in Italy 428
Serrano and Andres 428
Vannetti and Zorzi 428
Arteaga and Isla 429
Lampillas 429
End of the Controversy 430
Result of it 431
APPENDIX, H.
Inedita.
No. I. Poema de José el Patriarca 432
No. II. La Danza General de la Muerte 459
No. III. El Libro del Rabi Santob 475
Index 505