SANTA BARBARA STATE COLLEGE LIBRA*! HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE. VOL. II. 6750 ft 4 HISTORY OF SP4NISH LITERATURE, BY GEORGE TICKNOR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, LATE TICKXOR & FIELDS, AM> FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co 1872. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, BY ANNA TICKNOR, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington- UNIVERSITY PRESS : WELCH, BIGBLOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. T5 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. SECOND PERIOD. (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER V. DIDACTIC POETRY AND PBOSE. CASTTLIAN LANGUAGE. Early Didactic Poetry . 3 Juan de Avila u Luis de Escobar 4 Antonio de Guevara .... 1ft Alonso de Corelas . 5 His Relox de Principes . 10 Gonzalez de la Torre 5 His De"cada de los Ce"sares . 18 Didactic Prose . . 6 His Epistolas 19 Francisco de Villalobos . 6 His other Works M Fernan Perez de Oliva . 9 The Dialogo de las Lenguas . 21 Juan de Sedeno . . 11 Its probable Author .... 22 Cervantes de Salazar . . . 11 State of the Castilian Language from Luis Mexia .... 11 the Time of Juan de Mena 25 Pedro de Navarra . 12 Contributions to it . 35 Pedro Mexia . . . . 12 Dictionaries and Grammars , . . Ger<5nimo de Urrea . 13 The -Language formed ir Palacios Rubios 16 The Dialects