Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)

INTRODUCTION MOSEN JORDI.--CANCIONERO.--ALPHONSO X. AND HIS COURT.--ALPHONSO XI. AND HIS COURT.--JUAN DE MENA. In every other country, to treat of its literary men is at the same time to give a history of its literature. In Spain it is otherwise. We have no trace of who the poets were who produced that vast collection of ballads and romances, which, full of chivalry and adventure, love and war...