Spanish fiction -- Translations into English; Spanish poetry -- Translations into English
Sr. D. Adolfo y San Martín, in his Castilian translation of my _History
of Spanish Literature_ (Madrid, 1901) which he has enriched with many
valuable notes, observes (p. 325) that Cervantes, when writing the
preface to the First Part of _Don Quixote_ in 1604, evidently did not
know there were in existence at least three Spanish renderings of the
_Dialoghi_--one of them, published at Madrid in 1590, being by the
famous Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega.
For León Hebreo (or Judas Abarbanel) see Solomon Munk, _Mélanges de
philosophie juive et arabe_ (Paris, 1857), pp. 522-528 and Dr. B.
Zimmels, _Leo Hebraeus, ein jüdischer Philosoph der Renaissance; sein
Leben, seine Werke und seine Lehren_ (Breslau, 1886).
[62] Yet the obvious resemblances between the _Arcadia_ and the
_Galatea_ have been unaccountably overlooked by Francesco Torraca in
a monograph entitled _Gl'imitatori stranieri di Jacopo Sannazaro_
(Seconda edizione accresciuta, Roma, 1882). "Non mi sembra, però,
che la _Galatea_ e l' _Arcadia_ di Lope contengano imitazioni dello
scrittore napoletano." (p. 23).
[63] See cap. iii., ter. 49-51.
[64] See Scherillo, _op. cit._, pp. ccliii.-cclx. for an interesting
and striking enumeration (which might, as the commentator says,
be extended) of Cervantes's debts to Sannazaro. It is quaint and
significant to find that while Sannazaro in his _Prosa duodecima_
alludes apologetically, but with excellent reason, to _il mio picciolo
Sebetho_, Cervantes in his sixth book, with no reason of any sort,
introduces _las frescuras del apacible Sebeto_.
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