[41] See _Novelistas anteriores a Cervantes_ and _Novelistas posteriores a Cervantes_ in the _Biblioteca de Ribadeneyra_, vols. iii. and xviii. [42] For the history of the _Celestina_ see Mr Fitz Maurice Kelly’s introduction to the reprint of Mabbe’s excellent version in Mr Henley’s Tudor Translations. [43] The early history of the book, with an account of the doubts which prevail as to its authorship, will be found in the _Vie de Lazarillo de Tormés_. A new translation by M. A. Morel Fatio. Paris, 1886. [44] Quevedo’s works are in the _Biblioteca de Ribadeneyra_; but the desirable edition is that of Sancha, Madrid, 1791, in eleven pretty volumes. A translation of ‘The Sharper’ was published in London in 1892, admirably illustrated by the Spanish draughtsman known as Daniel Vierge. [45] The main authority for the life of Cervantes is still the _Biography_ by Don Martin Fernandez de Navarrete, published by the Spanish Academy in 1819. The memory of Cervantes has undergone the misfortune of becoming the object of a cult to the persons calling themselves Cervantistas, who have made it an excuse for infinite scribbling. A few new facts of no importance have been discovered, but Navarrete’s _Vida_ remains the real authority. [46] The fame and the excellence of _Le Diable Boiteux_ of Le Sage entitle the author of _El Diablo Cojuelo_ to notice in this chapter. Luis Velez de Guevara (1572 or 1574-1644) of Ecija was a fertile dramatist. His _Diablo Cojuelo_, published in 1641, supplied the starting-point, and the matter but not the form, of the two first chapters of _Le Diable Boiteux_. There is nothing answering to the famous “Après cela on nous réconcilia; nous nous embrassâmes; depuis ce temps là nous sommes ennemis mortels.” The matter of the _Diablo Cojuelo_ is akin to the _Visions_ of Quevedo, and the style is very idiomatic. CHAPTER VI. SPAIN--HISTORIANS, MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS, AND THE MYSTICS. SPANISH HISTORIANS--HISTORIES OF PARTICULAR EVENTS--EARLY HISTORIANS OF THE INDIES--GENERAL HISTORIANS OF THE INDIES--GÓMARA, OVIEDO, LAS CASAS, HERRERA, THE INCA GARCILASO--MENDOZA, MONCADA, AND MELO--GENERAL HISTORIES--OCAMPO, ZURITA, MORALES--MARIANA--THE DECADENCE--SOLIS--MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS--GRACIAN AND THE PREVALENCE OF GÓNGORISM--THE MYSTICS--SPANISH MYSTICISM--THE INFLUENCE OF THE INQUISITION ON SPANISH RELIGIOUS LITERATURE--MALON DE CHAIDE--JUAN DE ÁVILA--LUIS DE GRANADA--LUIS DE LEON--SANTA TERESA--JUAN DE LA CRUZ--DECADENCE OF THE MYSTIC WRITERS. [SN: _Spanish historians._]