OF THE

LITERATURE

OF THE

SOUTH OF EUROPE;

BY

J. C. L. SIMONDE DE SISMONDI:

OF THE ACADEMY AND SOCIETY OF ARTS OF GENEVA,

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WILNA, OF THE ITALIAN ACADEMY,

ETC. ETC.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL,

WITH NOTES, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY THOMAS ROSCOE.

Second Edition,

INCLUDING ALL THE NOTES FROM THE LAST PARIS EDITION.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

On the Prose Writers and Epic and Lyric Poets of Italy, during

the Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER XXIII.

Page

25

55

Origin of the Spanish Language and Poetry.-Poem of the Cid 86

CHAPTER XXIV.

Spanish Poetry of the Thirteenth Century.-Romances of the Cid 120

CHAPTER XXV.

On Spanish Literature, during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth

Centuries

CHAPTER XXVI.

Age of Charles V.-The Classics of Spain: Boscan; Garcilaso ;

Mendoza; Miranda; Montemayor

CHAPTER XXVII.

Spanish Literature of the Sixteenth Century, continued.-Herrera ;

Ponce de Leon; Cervantes; his Don Quixote

On the Dramas of Cervantes.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

CHAPTER XXIX.

140

175

204

229

Novels and Romances of Cervantes; the Araucana of Don Alonzo

On the Romantic Drama.-Lope Felix de Vega Carpio .

CHAPTER XXXI.

Continuation of Lope de Vega

CHAPTER XXXII.

Lyric Poetry of Spain, at the close of the Sixteenth and commence-

ment of the Seventeenth Century.-Gongora and his followers,

Quevedo, Villegas, &c.

. 283

318

341

Conclusion of the Spanish Drama.-State of Letters during the

reign of the house of Bourbon.-Conclusion of the History of

Spanish Literature

CHAPTER XXXVI.

State of Portuguese Literature until the middle of the Sixteenth

418

446

. 475

. 502

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Miscellaneous Poems of Camoens : Gil Vicente; Rodriguez Lobo;

Cortereal; Portuguese Historians of the Sixteenth Century

CHAPTER XL.

Continuation of the Literature of Portugal.-Conclusion

528

. 569