Historical view of the literature of the south of Europe. Volume II

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Alfieri and his school -- On the prose writers and epic and lyric poets of Italy, during the eighteenth century -- Origin of the Spanish language and poetry: poem of the Cid -- Spanish poetry of the thirteenth century: romance of the Cid -- On Spanish literature during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Age of Charles V. the classics of Spain: Boscan, Garcilaso, Mendoza, Miranda, Montemayor -- Spanish literature of the sixteenth century: Herrara, Ponce de Leon, Cervantes, his Don Quixote -- On the dramas of Cervantes -- Novels and romances of Cervantes, the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla -- One the romantic drama: Lope Felix de Vega Carpio -- Lyric poetry of Spain at the close of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth century, Gongora and his followers, Quevedo, Vellegas -- Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca -- Conclusion of Calderon -- Conclusion of the Spanish drama: State of letters during the reign of the house of Bourbon. Conclusion of the history of Spanish literature -- State of Portuguese literature until the middle of the sixteenth century -- Luis de Camoens: Lusiadas -- Sequel of the Lusiad -- Miscellaneous poems of Camoens: Gil Vicente, Rodriguez Lobo, Cortereal, Portuguese historians of the sixteenth century -- Continuation of the literature of Portugal