Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors -- Biography; Scientists -- Biography
'Quien os lo dijo, Señora,
no vos dija verdad, no--
que yo nunca entré in Castilla
ni en las tierras de León,
sino cuando era pequeño
que no sabia de amor.'"]
[Footnote 8: "O flor de saber y cabelleria,
Cordoba madre, tu hijo perdona,
si en los cantares, que agora pregona
no divulgré tu sabiduria.
De sabios, valientes loarte podria
qui fueron espejo muy maravilloso;
por ser de ti mismo, seré sopechoso,
dirán que los pinto mejor que debia."
_Wiffen's Life of Garcilaso._]
[Footnote 9: "Bolviendo los ojos a do me mandava,
vi mas adentro muy grandes tres ruedas,
las dos gran firmes, immotas y quedas
mas la del medio boltar no cessava.
Vi que debaxo de todos estava
caida por tierra grand gente infinita,
que avia en la fronte cada qual escrita,
el mombre y la suerte por donde passava.
Y vi que en la una que no se movia,
la gente que en ella avia de ser,
y la que debaxo esperava caer
con turbido velo sumorte cubria.
Y yo que de aquello muy poco sentia,
fiz de mi dubda complida palabra;
a mi guiadora, rogando que me abra
aquesta figura que yo no entendia."]
[Footnote 10: "Hoy comamos y bebamos,
y cantemos y holguemos
que mañana ayunaremos.
Por honra de San Antruejo
paremonos hoy bien anchos,
embutamos estos panchos,
recalquemos el pellejo
que costumbre es de concejo
que todo hoy nos hartemos,
pues manana ayunaremos.
Honremos a tan buen santo
que mañana viene la muerte,
comamos, bebemos huerte
que mañana habra quebranto
comamos, bebamos tanto
hasta que nos reventemos,
pues mañana ayunaremos."]
BOSCAN
1500-1543.
The first Spanish poet who introduced the Italian style was Mosen Juan
Boscan Almogaver. He was a man of mild and contemplative disposition,
and thus fitted to receive the shackles of rules of taste from others,
at the same time that, being a genuine poet, he could animate the
harmony and grace of his versification with earnest sentiments and
original thought. Restrain himself as he would, the genius of the
Spanish language and early association, forced him into greater
vividness and simplicity of expression than his Italian prototypes; and
at the same time, being a Catalonian, the very language of Castile,
which, as having become the classic language of his country, he adopted,
was to a certain degree a foreign tongue, and he could more easily
abandon the peculiar rhythm of its national poetry for versification,
such as was to be found in the productions of the Provençal poets, to
which his native country and dialect were akin.
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