I tuoi capelli, o Phylli, in una cistula Serbati tegno, et spesso, quand' io volgoli, Il cor mi passa una pungente aristula. Spesso gli lego et spesso oimè disciolgoli, Et lascio sopra lor quest' occhi piovere; Poi con sospir gli asciugo e inseme accolgoli. Basse son queste rime, exili et povere; Ma se'l pianger in Cielo ha qualche merito, Dovrebbe tanta fe' Morte commovere. Io piango, o Phylli, il tuo spietato interito, E'l mondo del mio mal tutto rinverdesi. Deh pensa, prego, al bel viver preterito, Se nel passar di Lethe amor non perdesi. An exhaustive study on Garcilaso's debts to Italy is given by Professor Francesco Flamini--_Imitazioni italiane in Garcilaso de la Vega_--in _La Biblioteca delle scuole italiane_ (Milano, June 1899). [43] See George Ticknor's _History of Spanish Literature_ (Sixth edition, Boston, 1888), vol. iii., p. 94. Ticknor, however, failed to notice that the date in his copy was a forgery: see Mr. J. L. Whitney's _Catalogue_ (Boston, 1879), p. 234, and compare Salvá y Mallen, _op. cit._, vol. ii., p. 168. [44] Scherillo, _op. cit._, p. ccxlvii. [45] The proof of this has been supplied independently by the late John Ormsby (see vol. iii. of the present edition (Glasgow, 1901), p. 51, _n._ i.); by Professor Hugo Albert Rennert (see _The Spanish Pastoral Romances_ (Baltimore, 1892), p. 9); and by myself (see the _Revue hispanique_ (Paris, 1895), vol. ii., pp. 304-311). All three appear to have been anticipated in the excellent monograph entitled _Jorge de Montemayor, sein Leben und sein Schäferroman die_ "_Siete Libros de la Diana_" _nebst einer Übersicht der Ausgaben dieser Dichtung und bibliographischen Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Georg Schönherr_ (Halle, 1886), p. 83. The decisive point is that Ticknor's copy, the oldest known edition, must be at least as late as 1554, for Montemôr here refers to the Infanta Juana as a widow: see (lib. iv.) the fifth stanza of the _Canto de Orfeo_. Her husband, Dom João, died on January 2, 1554. A duplicate of the Ticknor volume is in the British Museum library. [46] See the preface to Fray Bartholomé Ponce's _Primera Parte de la Clara Diana á lo divino, repartida en siete libros_ (Zaragoza, 1582): "El año mil quinientos cincuenta y nueue, estando yo en la corte del Rey don Philipe segundo deste nombre ... vi y ley la Diana de Jorge de Mõtemayor, la qual era tan accepta quanto yo jamas otro libro en Romance aya visto: entonces tuue entrañable desseo de conocer a su autor, lo qual se me cumplio tan a mi gusto, que dentro de diez días se offrecio tener nos combidados a los dos, vn canallero muy Illustre, aficionado en todo estremo al verso y poesia."