Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)

TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL. TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL. TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE THIRD VOLUME OF LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL. INTRODUCTION MOSEN JORDI THE CANCIONEROS ALPHONSO X. AND HIS COURT ALPHONSO XI. AND HIS COURT JUAN DE MENA JUAN DE ENZINA BOSCAN GARCILASO DE LA VEGA DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA LUIS DE LEON HERRERA SAA DE MIRANDA JORGE DE MONTEMAYOR CASTILLEJO THE EARLY DRAMATISTS ERCILLA CERVANTES LOPE DE VEGA VICENTE ESPINELESTEBAN DE VILLEGAS GONGORA QUEVEDO CALDERON EARLY POETS OF PORTUGAL RIBEYRA SAA DE MIRANDA GIL VICENTE FERREIRA CAMOENS INDEX In every other country, to treat of its literary men is at the same time to give a history of its literature. In Spain it is otherwise. We have no trace of who the poets were who produced that vast collection of ballads and romances, which, full of chivalry and adventure, love and war, fascinate the imagination, and bestow immortality on heroessome real, some fictitiouswho otherwise had never been known. To understand the merits of the later writers, to know on what their style and spirit was formed, it is necessary to give some account of the early, and also of the anonymous, poetry of Spain. Nor will it be foreign to the subject, nor uninteresting, slightly to trace the progress of literature in the Peninsula from its earliest date. From a thousand causes Spain is the land of romance. There never was any one who has travelled in that country, whatever might be his political opinions, or his view of human nature and society, but admired and loved the Spaniards. There is an {Pg 1} originality, an independence, an enthusiasm, in the Spanish character that distinguishes them from every other people. Despotism and the Inquisition, ignorance and superstition, have been unable to level the noble altitude of their souls; and even while the manifestations of genius have been crushed, genius has survived. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 65228
Author: Montgomery, James
Release Date: May 2, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Editor: Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859