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 BOSCAN. The first Spanish Poet who introduced the Italian Style 21 1500. His Birth 21 His noble Descent 21 His Marriage 21 Chosen Governor to the Duke of Alva 22 1525. Andrea Navagero, the Venetian Ambassador 22 His Arrival at the Court of Charles V. at Toledo; he meets with Boscan and Garcilaso 22 He induces them to quit their national Redondillas 22 This Circumstance referred to by Boscan in the Dedication of his Poems to the Duchess of Soma 23 A Translation of one of Garcilaso's Poems 24 Translation of the Epistle of Boscan to Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza 26 1543. Petrarch and Boscan compared 34 GARCILASO DE LA VEGA.