History of Spanish Literature, vol. 2 (of 3)Ticknor, George
History
History of Spanish Literature, vol. 2 (of 3)
Ticknor, George
Spanish literature -- History and criticism
[13] “Comedia llamada Vidriana, compuesta por Jaume de Huete
agora nuevamente,” etc., sm. 4to, black letter, 18 leaves,
without year, place, or printer. It has ten interlocutors, and
ends with an apology in Latin, that the author cannot write like
Mena,--Juan de Mena I suppose,--though I know not why he should
have been selected, as the piece is evidently in the manner of
Naharro.
[14] Another drama, from the same volume with the last two.
Moratin (Catálogo, No. 47) had found it noticed in the Index
Expurgatorius of Valladolid, 1559, and assigns it, at a venture,
to the year 1531, but he never saw it. Its title is “Comedia
intitulada Tesorina, la materia de la qual es unos amores de
un penado por una Señora y otras personas adherentes. Hecha
nuevamente por Jaume de Huete. Pero si por ser su natural lengua
Aragonesa, no fuere por muy cendrados terminos, quanto a este
merece perdon.” Small 4to, black letter, 15 leaves, no year,
place, or printer. It has ten interlocutors, and is throughout an
imitation of Naharro, who is mentioned in some mean Latin lines
at the end, where the author expresses the hope that his Muse may
be tolerated, “quamvis non Torris digna Naharro venit.”
[15] “Comedia intitulada Radiana, compuesta por Agostin Ortiz,”
small 4to, black letter, 12 leaves, no year, place, or printer.
It is in five _jornadas_, and has ten personages,--a favorite
number apparently. It comes from the volume above alluded to,
which contains besides:--1. A poor prose story, interspersed with
dialogue, on the tale of Mirrha, taken chiefly from Ovid. It is
called “La _Tragedia_ de Mirrha,” and its author is the Bachiller
Villalon. It was printed at Medina del Campo, 1536, por Pedro
Toraus, small 4to, black letter. 2. An eclogue somewhat in the
manner of Juan de la Enzina, for a _Nacimiento_. It is called a
_Farza_,--“El Farza siguiente hizo Pero Lopez Ranjel,” etc. It
is short, filling only 4 ff., and contains three _villancicos_.
On the title-page is a coarse wood-cut of the manger, with
Bethlehem in the background. 3. A short, dull farce, entitled
“Jacinta”;--not the Jacinta of Naharro. These three, together
with the four previously noticed, are, I believe, known to
exist only in the copy I have used from the library of M. H.
Ternaux-Compans.
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