Category: History - Other
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 E...
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 Ce...
3. CHAPTER XXXII.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...
4. CHAPTER XXXIII.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 4...
5. CHAPTER XXXIV.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 Sp...
6. CHAPTER XXXV.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...
7. CHAPTER XXXVI.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 Barbadill...
8. CHAPTER XXXVII.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...
9. CHAPTER XXXVIII.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...
10. CHAPTER XXXIX.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 Di...
11. CHAPTER XL.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 Reli...
12. CHAPTER I.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 Dictionari...
13. CHAPTER II.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 23...
14. CHAPTER III.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, Morale...
15. CHAPTER IV.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...
16. CHAPTER V.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 Melende...
17. CHAPTER VI.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, Añe...
18. CHAPTER VII.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 Se...
19. CHAPTER XXXI.SATIRICAL POETRY: THE ARGENSOLAS, QUEVEDO, AND OTHERS.--ELEGIAC POETRY AND EPISTLES: GARCILASSO, HERRERA, AND OTHERS.--PASTORAL POETRY: SAA DE MIRANDA, BALBUENA, ESQUILACHE, AND...
20. CHAPTER XXXII.BALLAD POETRY CULTIVATED: SEPÚLVEDA, FUENTES, TIMONEDA, PADILLA, CUEVA, HITA, HIDALGO, VALDIVIELSO, LOPE DE VEGA, ARELLANO, ROCA Y SERNA, ESQUILACHE, MENDOZA, QUEVEDO.--ROMANCER...
21. CHAPTER XXXIII.ROMANTIC FICTION.--CHANGE OF MANNERS PRODUCES A CHANGE OF THE FICTIONS FOUNDED UPON THEM.--PASTORAL ROMANCE AND ITS ORIGIN: MONTEMAYOR AND HIS DIANA, WITH ITS CONTINUATIONS BY P...
22. CHAPTER XXXIV.ROMANCES IN THE STYLE OF ROGUES.--STATE OF MANNERS THAT PRODUCED THEM.--MENDOZA’S LAZARILLO DE TORMES.--ALEMAN’S GUZMAN DE ALFARACHE, WITH THE SPURIOUS CONTINUATION OF IT BY SAY...
23. c. 2,) is substantially the same with that played on Marcos,(Relacion I. Desc. 9,)--where the stories of Camilla (Gil Blas, Liv. I. c. 16, Marcos, Rel. III. Desc. 8) and of Mergellina (Gil Blas, Liv. II. c. 7, Marcos, Rel. I. Desc. 3), w...
24. CHAPTER XXXV.SERIOUS AND HISTORICAL ROMANCES.--JUAN DE FLORES, REINOSO, LUZINDARO, CONTRERAS, HITA AND THE WARS OF GRANADA, FLEGETONTE, NOYDENS, CÉSPEDES, CERVANTES, LAMARCA, VALLADARES, TEX...
25. CHAPTER XXXVI.TALES.--VILLEGAS, TIMONEDA, CERVANTES, HIDALGO, FIGUEROA, BARBADILLO, ESLAVA, AGREDA, LIÑAN Y VERDUGO, LOPE DE VEGA, SALAZAR, LUGO, CAMERINO, TELLEZ, MONTALVAN, REYES, PERALTA,...
26. CHAPTER XXXVII.ELOQUENCE, FORENSIC AND PULPIT.--LUIS DE LEON.--LUIS DE GRANADA.--PARAVICINO AND THE SCHOOL OF BAD TASTE.--EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE.--ZURITA.--PEREZ.--SANTA TERESA.--ARGENSOLA....
27. CHAPTER XXXVIII.The fathers of Spanish history, as distinguished from Spanish chronicling, are Zurita and Morales, both of whom, educated in the reign of Charles the Fifth, show that they were...
28. CHAPTER XXXIX.PROVERBS: SANTILLANA, GARAY, NUÑEZ, MAL LARA, PALMIRENO, OUDIN, SORAPAN, CEJUDO, YRIARTE.--DIDACTIC PROSE: TORQUEMADA, ACOSTA, LUIS DE GRANADA, JUAN DE LA CRUZ, SANTA TERESA, MA...
29. CHAPTER XL.CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE SECOND PERIOD.--DECAY OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER.--DIMINISHED NUMBER OF WRITERS AND DIMINISHED INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN LETTERS.--RUIN OF THE STATE BEG...
30. CHAPTER I.WAR OF THE SUCCESSION.--BOURBON FAMILY.--PHILIP THE FIFTH.--ACADEMY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE: ITS DICTIONARY, ORTHOGRAPHY, GRAMMAR, AND OTHER WORKS.--ACADEMY OF BARCELONA.--ACADE...
31. CHAPTER II.One historical work of some consequence belongs entirely to the reign of Philip the Fifth,--the commentaries on the War of the Succession, and the history of the country from 17...
32. CHAPTER III.It can hardly be said, that, during the forty-six years of the reign of Philip the Fifth, the intolerance which had so long blighted the land relaxed its grasp. The progress of...
33. CHAPTER IV.SLOW PROGRESS OF CULTURE.--CHARLES THE THIRD AND HIS POLICY.--ISLA.--HIS FRIAR GERUND.--HIS CICERO.--HIS GIL BLAS.--EFFORTS TO RESTORE THE OLD SCHOOL OF POETRY.--HUERTA.--SEDANO...
34. CHAPTER V.Both the parties, into which Spanish literature was divided about the middle of the eighteenth century, erred by running into those extremes of opinion which are rarely right in...
35. CHAPTER VI.THEATRE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.--TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH.--ORIGINAL PLAYS.--OPERAS.--NATIONAL THEATRE.--CASTRO.--AÑORBE.--IMITATIONS OF THE FRENCH THEATRE.--MONTIANO.--M...
36. CHAPTER VII.REIGN OF CHARLES THE FOURTH.--FRENCH REVOLUTION.--INQUISITION.--PLOT OF THE ESCURIAL.--FERDINAND THE SEVENTH.--BONAPARTE.--THE FRENCH INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF THE COUNTRY.--RE...