The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of Spanish Literature, vol. 3 (of 3)., by George Ticknor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license Title: History of Spanish Literature, vol. 3 (of 3). Author: George Ticknor Release Date: February 3, 2018 [EBook #56490] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPANISH LITERATURE VOL. 3 *** Produced by Josep Cols Canals, Ramon Pajares Box and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's note Table of Contents Index HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE. VOL. III. [p. i] HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE. BY GEORGE TICKNOR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME III. N E W Y O R K : HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET. M DCCC XLIX. [p. iii] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by George Ticknor, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. [p. iv] CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD. SECOND PERIOD. (Continued.) CHAPTER XXXI. Satirical Poetry, Epistolary, Elegiac, Pastoral, Epigrammatic, Didactic, and Descriptive. Satirical Poetry 3 Mendoza, Boscan 3 Castillejo, Montemayor 4 Padilla, Cantorál 4 Murillo, Artieda 4 Barahona de Soto 4 Juan de Jauregui 4 The Argensolas 5 Quevedo, Góngora 5 Cervantes, Espinel 6 Arguijo, Rioja 6 Salcedo, Ulloa, Melo 6 Rebolledo, Solís 6 Satire discouraged 7 Elegiac Poetry 8 Garcilasso 8 Figueroa, Silvestre 9 Cantorál, the Argensolas 9 Borja, Herrera 9 Rioja, Quevedo 9 Villegas 9 Elegy does not succeed 9 Pastoral Poetry 10 Garcilasso, Boscan, Mendoza 10 Figueroa, Cantorál 10 Montemayor 10 Saa de Miranda 10 Polo, Balbuena 12 Barahona de Soto 12 Padilla, Silvestre 12 Pedro de Enzinas 12 Morales, Tapia 13 Balvas, Villegas 13 Carrillo, Esquilache 13 Quevedo, Espinosa 13 Soto de Roxas, Zarate 13 Ulloa, Los Reyes 13 Barrios, Inez de la Cruz 13 Pastorals successful 14 Epigrams, amatory 14 Maldonado, Silvestre 15 Villegas, Góngora 15 Camoens, Argensolas 15 Villegas, Quevedo 15 Esquilache 15 Francisco de la Torre 15 Rebolledo 16 Didactic Poetry 17 Earliest 17 In the Cancioneros 17 Boscan, Silvestre, Mendoza 17 Guzman, Aldana, Rufo 19 [p. v] Virues, Cantorál 19 Morillo, Salas 19 Argensola, Artieda 19 Mesa, Espinel 19 Juan de la Cueva 20 Pablo de Céspedes 20 Lope de Vega 22 Rebolledo, Trapeza 22 Emblems 22 Daza, Covarrubias 22 Descriptive Poetry 23 Dicastillo 23 Didactic Poetry fails 23 CHAPTER XXXII. Ballad Poetry. Effect of the Romanceros 25 Lorenzo de Sepúlveda 26 Alonso de Fuentes 27 Juan de Timoneda 29 Pedro de Padilla 30 Juan de la Cueva 31 Ginés Perez de Hita 31 Hidalgo, Valdivielso 31 Lope de Vega 32 Arellano 32 Roca y Serna, Esquilache 33 Mendoza, Quevedo 33 Silva de Romances 33 Los Doce Pares 34 Romancero del Cid 34 Primavera de Perez 34 Esquilache 35 Silvestre, Montemayor 35 Espinel, Castillejo 35 Lopez de Maldonado 35 Góngora, Arteaga 35 Villamediana, Coronel 35 Cervantes, Lope de Vega 36 Fereira, Alarcon 36 Diego de la Chica 36 Universal Love of Ballads 37 CHAPTER XXXIII. Romantic Fiction. — Prose Pastorals. Romances of Chivalry 38 Changed Taste 39 Seen in Pastoral Fictions 39 Shepherd’s Life in Spain 39 Sannazaro in Italy 40 Montemayor 41 His Diana Enamorada 41 Continued by Perez 43 And by Gil Polo 44 Antonio de Lo Frasso 45 Luis Galvez de Montalvo 46 His Fílida 46 Cervantes 47 Bartolomé de Enciso 47 Bovadilla 48 Bernardo de la Vega 48 Lope de Vega 49 Bernardo de Balbuena 49 His Siglo de Oro 49 Suarez de Figueroa 50 [p. vi] His Amaryllis and Pastor Fido 50 Adorno, Botelho 51 Quintana, Cuevas 51 Corral, Saavedra 51 Popularity of Pastorals 52 Their Incongruities 53 Their Foundation 54 Their Failure 54 CHAPTER XXXIV. Romantic Fiction, continued. — Stories in the Gusto Picaresco. Their Origin 55 Military Life 56 Contempt for honest Labor 56 Feeling of the lower Classes 57 The Pícaros 58 Lazarillo de Tórmes 58 Mateo Aleman 59 His Guzman de Alfarache 59 Spurious Second Part 61 Genuine Second Part 61 Andreas Perez 66 His Pícara Justina 67 Drama and Short Tales 67 Vicente Espinel 67 His Marcos de Obregon 68 Yañez y Rivera 71 His Alonso 71 Quevedo, Solorzano 72 Enriquez Gomez 73 Estevanillo Gonzalez 74 Success of Pícaro Stories 75 CHAPTER XXXV. Romantic Fiction, continued. — Serious and Historical Romances. Early Specimens 76 Juan de Flores 77 Nuñez de Reinoso 77 Luzindaro y Medusina 77 Hierónimo de Contreras 78 Relations with Italy and Algiers 79 Ginés Perez de Hita 79 His Guerras de Granada 79 Not imitated 84 La Cryselia de Lidaceli 86 Benito Remigio Noydens 86 Gonzalo de Céspedes 87 Cervantes, Lamarca 87 Dos Verdaderos Amigos 88 Valladares de Valdelomar 88 Grave Fictions discouraged 89 Cosmé de Texada 90 Christóval Lozano 91 Serious Fictions not successful 92 CHAPTER XXXVI. Romantic Fiction, concluded. — Tales. Arise from the State of Society 93 Antonio de Villegas 93 His Story of Narvaez 94 Juan de Timoneda 96 His Patrañuelo 97 [p. vii] Cervantes, Hidalgo 99 Suarez, Figueroa 99 Salas Barbadillo 99 Eslava, Agreda 102 Liñan y Verdugo 103 Lope de Vega 103 Salazar, Lugo, Camerino 103 Changed Form of Tales 104 Tirso de Molina 104 Montalvan 105 Matias de los Reyes 106 Fernandez y Peralta 106 Montalvan 106 Céspedes y Meneses, Moya 107 Castro y Anaya 107 Mariana de Carbajal 107 María de Zayas 108 Mata, Castillo, Lozano 108 Solorzano 108 Alcalá, Villalpando, Prado 109 Isidro de Robles 109 Luis Velez de Guevara 110 Jacinto Polo 111 Marcos Garcia 112 Francisco Santos 113 Tales everywhere 117 Early Appearance of Romantic Fiction 118 Its early Decay 119 CHAPTER XXXVII. Eloquence. — Epistolary Correspondence. Forensic Eloquence little cultivated 121 Courts of Justice 121 Cortes 121 Eloquence of the Pulpit 122 Luis de Leon 123 Luis de Granada 123 Cultismo in the Pulpit 127 Paravicino 127 Pulpit Eloquence fails 128 Letter-writers formal 128 Queen Isabella, Columbus 128 Guevara, Avila 129 Zurita and his Friends 129 Antonio Perez 130 Santa Teresa 135 Argensola, Lope de Vega 136 Quevedo, Cascales 136 Antonio, Solís 136 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Historical Composition. Fathers of Spanish History 138 Gerónimo de Zurita 138 Ambrosio de Morales 141 Diego de Mendoza 142 Ribadeneyra, Siguenza 142 Juan de Mariana 143 His Persecutions 146 His History of Spain 147 Prudencio Sandoval 151 Spanish Discoveries and Conquests 153 Antonio de Herrera 153 Bartolomé de Argensola 155 Garcilasso de la Vega, Inca 155 Francisco de Moncada 159 [p. viii] Coloma, Marquis of Espinar 160 Manuel Melo 161 Saavedra Faxardo 164 Antonio Solís 164 Character of Spanish History 167 CHAPTER XXXIX. Didactic Prose. Proverbs 169 Oldest 170 Marquis of Santillana 170 Garay, Valles, Nuñez 171 Mal Lara, Palmireno 172 Oudin, Sorapan, Cejudo 172 Juan de Yriarte 173 Great Number of Proverbs 173 Didactic Prose 174 Antonio de Torquemada 174 Christóval de Acosta 175 Luis de Granada 176 Juan de la Cruz 178 Santa Teresa 179 School of Spiritualists 180 Malon de Chaide 180 Agustin de Roxas 181 Suarez de Figueroa 183 Marquez, Vera y Zuñiga 184 Fernandez de Navarrete 184 Saavedra Faxardo 185 Quevedo, Antonio de Vega 186 Nieremberg, Benavente 186 Guzman, Dantisco 187 Andrada, Villalobos 188 Aleman, Faria y Sousa 188 Francisco de Andrade 189 Cultismo in Spanish Prose 190 Paravicino 191 Baltazar Gracian 191 Cultismo prevails 194 Juan de Zabaleta 194 Lozano, Heredia, Ramirez 195 Small Success of Didactic Prose 196 CHAPTER XL. Concluding Remarks on the Period. Decay of the Spanish Character 198 Charles the Fifth, Philip the Second 199 Philip the Third 200 Philip the Fourth 201 Charles the Second 203 Degradation of the Country 203 Religion sinks into Bigotry 204 Loyalty sinks into Servility 207 Literature fails with Character 209 THIRD PERIOD. The Literature that existed in Spain between the Accession of the Bourbon Family and the Invasion of Bonaparte; or from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Part of the Nineteenth. CHAPTER I. Reign of Philip the Fifth. [p. ix] Death of Charles the Second 213 His Will 214 War of the Succession 214 Peace of Utrecht 214 Philip the Fifth 215 Academy of the Language 216 State of the Language 217 Dictionaries of the Language 219 Dictionary of the Academy 219 Its Orthography 220 Its Grammar 221 Its other Labors 223 Other Academies 223 State of Poetry 224 Moraes 225 Reynosa, Cevallos 226 Lobo, Benegasi 227 Alvarez de Toledo 228 Antonio Muñoz 228 Sagradas’s Flores 228 Jorge de Pitillas 229 CHAPTER II. Reign of Philip the Fifth, concluded. Marquis of San Phelipe 230 French Influences 232 Translations from the French 233 Ignacio de Luzan 233 Elder Works on Criticism 235 Enzina, Rengifo, Lopez 236 Cascales, Salas 236 Luzan’s Poética 237 State of the Moral and Physical Sciences 239 State of the Universities 240 Low State of Spanish Culture 240 Benito Feyjoó 242 His Teatro Crítico 244 His Cartas Eruditas 244 Effect of his Works 245 CHAPTER III. Reigns of Philip the Fifth and Ferdinand the Sixth. The Inquisition 246 Intolerance 247 Autos da Fé and Judaism 248 Culture under Ferdinand 249 The Inquisition 249 Policy of the State 250 Condition of Letters 250 Saldueña, Moraleja, Ortiz 250 Academy of Good Taste 251 Velazquez 251 Mayans y Siscar 252 Blas Nasarre 253 CHAPTER IV. Reign of Charles the Third. State of the Country 254 Character of the King 255 The Jesuits 256 The Universities 256 The Inquisition 257 Dawn of Better Things 258 Father Isla 258 [p. x] His Juventud Triunfante 258 His Dia Grande 259 His Sermones 260 His Fray Gerundio 260 His Exile 264 His Cicero 265 His Translation of Gil Blas 266 Question of its Authorship 266 Efforts to restore the Old School 270 Sedano, Sanchez, Sarmiento 271 Efforts to encourage the French School 272 Moratin the Elder 272 Club of Men of Letters 274 Cadahalso 275 Yriarte 277 His Fables 279 Samaniego 280 His Fables 281 Arroyal, Montengon 282 Salas, Meras, Noroña 282 CHAPTER V. School of Salamanca and other Poets. — Reign of Charles the Fourth. State of Literary Parties 285 Melendez Valdes 285 His Works 287 His Exile and Death 291 Gonzalez 293 Forner 294 Iglesias 294 Cienfuegos 295 Jovellanos 297 Connected with Melendez 298 His Political Services 299 His Exiles 300 His Share in the Revolution 301 His Death 303 His Character 304 Muñoz 305 Escoiquiz 306 Moratin the Younger 307 His Relations to Godoy 308 Quintana 309 CHAPTER VI. The Theatre in the Eighteenth Century. Important Movement 312 Translations from the French 312 Cañizares, Torres, Lobo 313 Lower Classes rule 313 The old Court-yards 314 The new Theatres 314 The Opera 315 Castro, Añerbe, Montiano 316 The Virginia and Athaulpho 317 Translations from the French 318 The Petimetra of Moratin the Elder 318 His Hormesinda 319 His Guzman el Bueno 319 Cadahalso 319 Sebastian y Latre 320 Yriarte, Melendez 321 Ayala 321 Huerta 322 Jovellanos 323 [p. xi] Autos suppressed 324 Low State of the Theatre 325 Ramon de la Cruz 326 Sedano, Lassala, Cortés 329 Cienfuegos, Huerta 329 Discussions 330 Valladares, Zavala 331 Comella 332 Moratin the Younger 333 Patronized by Godoy 334 His first Play 335 His Nueva Comedia 336 His Baron and Mogigata 337 His Sí de las Niñas 338 His Translations 339 State of the Drama 340 Actors of Note 340 State of the Theatre 341 Prospects 341 CHAPTER VII. Reigns of Charles the Fourth and Ferdinand the Seventh. — Conclusion. Charles the Fourth and Godoy 343 French Revolution 343 Index Expurgatorius 344 Affair of the Escurial 345 Abdication 345 French Invasion 345 French expelled 346 Ferdinand the Seventh 346 Effect of the Times on Letters 347 Interregnum in Culture 349 Revival of Letters 349 Prospects for the Future 350 APPENDIX, A. Origin of the Spanish Language. Spain and its Name 355 The Iberians in Spain 356 The Celts 357 The Celtiberians 358 The Phœnicians 358 The Carthaginians 359 The Romans 360 Their Colonies 362 Their Language 363 Their Writers 364 Christianity introduced 365 Its Effects on the Language 366 Irruption of the Northern Tribes 368 The Franks, Vandali, etc. 369 The Goths 369 Their Culture 370 Their Effect on the Language 371 The Arabs 372 Their Invasion 373 Their Effect on the Provençal 374 Their Refinement 375 The Christians and Pelayo 376 The Mozárabes 377 Their Influence 378 Their Reunion 379 The Language of the North 380 How modified 381 First written Spanish 382 [p. xii] Carta Puebla de Avilés 383 The Romance 384 The Spanish or Castilian 384 Materials that compose it 385 Its rapid Prevalence 386 APPENDIX, B. The Romanceros. Ballads on separate Sheets 388 Oldest Ballad-book 389 That of Antwerp 390 Other early Ballad-books 392 Ballad-book in Nine Parts 392 Romancero General 393 Early Selections from the Romanceros 394 Recent Selections 395 What is still wanted 396 APPENDIX, C. Fernan Gomez de Cibdareal and the Centon Epistolario. Suggestions on its Genuineness 397 Probably a Forgery 398 No such Person mentioned early 398 No Manuscript of the Letters 398 Date of the earliest Edition false 398 Second Edition admits it 398 No Date to the Letters at first 399 Their Style 399 That of the First Edition 399 Misstatements about Juan de Mena 399 About Barrientos 400 About Alvaro de Luna 401 Appeared in an Age of Forgeries 402 State of the Question 403 APPENDIX, D. The Buscapié. Statement by Los Rios 404 By Ruydiaz 405 Effect of their Statements 406 Don Adolfo de Castro 406 Publishes a Buscapié 406 What it is 407 Contradicts Los Rios and Ruydiaz 408 Its long Concealment suspicious 408 Its External Evidence 409 Argote de Molina 409 The Duke of Lafões 410 Don Pascual de Gándara 411 Its Internal Evidence 411 Resemblances to the Style of Cervantes 411 Mistake about Enzinas 412 About an old Proverb 413 Its Title-page 414 Its Notice of Alcalá 414 State of the Question 415 APPENDIX, E. Editions, Translations, and Imitations of the Don Quixote. First Part 416 [p. xiii] Second Part 417 Both Parts 417 Lord Carteret’s Edition 417 That of the Academy 418 Of Bowle 418 Of Pellicer 418 Of Clemencin 419 Translations 419 Imitations out of Spain 420 In Spain 421 Its Fame everywhere 422 APPENDIX, F. Early Collections of Old Spanish Plays. Comedias de Diferentes Autores 423 Comedias Nuevas Escogidas 424 Various smaller Collections 426 APPENDIX, G. On the Origin of Cultismo. Controversy about it in Italy 427 Bettinelli and Tiraboschi 427 Spanish Jesuits in Italy 428 Serrano and Andres 428 Vannetti and Zorzi 428 Arteaga and Isla 429 Lampillas 429 End of the Controversy 430 Result of it 431 APPENDIX, H. Inedita. No. I. Poema de José el Patriarca 432 No. II. La Danza General de la Muerte 459 No. III. El Libro del Rabi Santob 475 Index 505 [p. xiv]