[5] See Martín Fernández de Navarrete's _Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra_ (Madrid, 1819), pp. 65-68. Navarrete, however, points out that the _Galatea_ cannot have appeared early in 1584, as his predecessors had alleged: "No se publicó hasta los últimos meses de aquel año." I do not understand him to say that the book was published at Madrid. [6] See George Ticknor's _History of Spanish Literature_ (Sixth American Edition, Boston, 1888), vol. ii., p. 117. [7] Amongst others, John Gibson Lockhart in his _Introduction_ to a reprint of Peter Motteux's version of _Don Quixote_ (Edinburgh, 1822), vol. i., p. 25; Thomas Roscoe, _The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra_ (London, 1839), p. 38; Mrs. Oliphant in her _Cervantes_ (Edinburgh and London, 1880), p. 76; and Alexander James Duffield in his _Don Quixote: his critics and commentators_ (London, 1881), p. 79. In his _Later Renaissance_ (London, 1898), p. 149, Mr. David Hannay gives the date as 1580. On the other hand, John Ormsby stated the facts with his habitual accuracy in the Introduction to the first edition of his translation of _Don Quixote_ (London, 1885), vol. i., p. 29. [8] See C.-B. Dumaine's _Essai sur la vie et les œuvres de Cervantes d'après un travail inédit de D. Luis Carreras_ (Paris, 1897), p. 47: "Les vers de la Galatée remontent au temps de son séjour en Italie. Ces poésies étaient addressées à une dame, à laquelle il témoignait de tendres sentiments." [9] See Sr. D. José María Asensio y Toledo's _Nuevos documentos para ilustrar la vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, con algunas observaciones y articulos sobre la vida y obras del mismo autor y las pruebas de la autenticidad de su verdadero retrato_ (Seville, 1864), pp. 51-52. Sr. Asensio y Toledo, who repeats his view as to the date of composition in his _Cervantes y sus obras_ (Barcelona, 1901), p. 195, relies mainly on an expression in the preface: "Huyendo destos dos inconvenientes no he publicado antes de ahora este libro." Taken by itself, this phrase certainly implies that the book had been completed some time before; but the passage is too rhetorically, and too vaguely, worded to admit of safe deductions being drawn from it. The idea that the _Galatea_ was written in Portugal was thrown out long ago by Eustaquio Fernández de Navarrete: see his _Bosquejo histórico sobre la novela española_ in Manuel Rivadeneyra, _Biblioteca de autores españoles_, (Madrid, 1854), vol. xxxiii., p. xxiv. [10] Lucas Gracián Dantisco wrote an imitation of Della Casa's book under the title of _Galateo español_ (Barcelona, 1594). His brother, Tomás, is mentioned by Cervantes in the _Canto de Calíope_.