His illustrious Descent 36
1503. His Birth 37
Accession of Charles V. 38
Death of Cardinal Ximenes 38
Election of Charles to the Imperial Crown, and his intended
Departure for Germany 38
Revolution in Spain in consequence 38
Garcilaso distinguishes himself at the Battle of Pavia 39
1528. His Marriage 39
1532. Invasion of Hungary by Solyman 39
Garcilaso falls into Disgrace at Court 39
His Exile 39
His Ode in Commemoration of his Imprisonment 40
Muley Hassan driven out of Algiers by Barbarossa, who
possesses himself of it 40
He fortifies the Citadel 41
Algiers invested by the Emperor Charles 41
Garcilaso serves in the Imperial Army; his Gallantry nearly
proves fatal to him 41
Return of Charles to Italy 41
Garcilaso, his Residence at Naples 41
Quotation from his Elegy to Boscan 42
1535. (5th of August.) Cardinal Bemboa, his Letter to a Friend in
Commendation of Garcilaso 42
His Letter to Garcilaso 44
Charles V. enters France; he recals Garcilaso, and confers on
him the Command over eleven Companies of Infantry 45
Epistle of Garcilaso to Boscan from Vaucluse 45
1536. Death of Garcilaso while attacking a Tower 46
His Character 47
His Children 47
His second Eclogue 47
Quotation from it 49
Translation of his Ode to the "Flower of Gnido" 53