EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.
INTRODUCTION.
A.D.
Preliminary Remarks 1
Aborigines of Spain 2
Silius Italicus 2
Lucan 2
The Senecas 2
The Roman Power in Spain annihilated by the Visigoths 3
Anecdotes of the Goths 3
Conquest of Spain by the Moors 3
The University of Cordova founded by Abdorrhaman III. 4
Settlement of the Jews in Spain 4
Arabic Authors 5
The Romances Moriscos 5
Troubadours 5
Mosen Jordi de Sant Jordi 6
The Redondillas 7
The Cancionero general and the Romancero general 9
Quotation from Doctor Bowring's Translation of the
Redondillas 9
Romances of Chivalry 10
1325. Vasco Lobeira 10
Alphonso X., surnamed the Wise 11
The Cultivation which he bestowed on the Castilian Language 11
His Works 11
The Alphonsine Tables 11
Alphonso XI. 11
Spain desolated by Civil Wars 12
Juan Ruiz 12
1407. John II., his disastrous Reign 12
The Marquis of Villena institutes Floral Games 13
1434. His Death 13
Marquis of Santillana 13
Marcias, his melancholy Fate 13
1412. Juan de Mena, the Ennius of Spain 14
His Birth 14
His Origin 14
He studies at the University of Salamanca 14
His Works 15
1456. His Death 15
Quintano, his Opinion of the "Labyrinto" 15
Juan de Enzina, Author of the first Spanish Plays 17
His Birth 17
His Songs and Lyrics 18
His Name becomes proverbial in Spain by his Song of
Contraries or Absurdities 18
A Quotation from Doctor Bowring's Translation 18
Union of the Crowns of Castile and Arragon 19
Castilian adopted as the classic Language of the Country 20