1. One of the best discussions of the Spanish chronicle is that of George Ticknor, History of Spanish literature (New York, 1854; 3 vols.), vol. 1, chaps. 8, 9, 10.

2. See Julio Cejador y Frauca, Historia de la lengua y literatura castellana ... (Madrid, 1915-1922; 14 vols.), vol. 1, p. 412.

3. Summaries of the plots of Amadis of Gaul and other romances of chivalry are given in Lewis Spence, Legends and romances of Spain (New York, 1920).

4. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Orígenes de la novela (Madrid, 1905-1915; 4 vols.), vol. 1, p. ccxxiii.

5. The following useful table of sixteenth-century novels of chivalry is reproduced from Henry Thomas, Spanish and Portuguese romances of chivalry (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1920), pp. 147-148:

1508 Amadis de Gaula
1510 Sergas de Esplandián Florisando
1511 Palmerín de Oliva
1512 Primaleón de Grecia
1514 Lisuarte de Grecia
1516 Floriseo
1517 Arderique
1518 Clarián de Landanis
1519 Claribalte
1520 Leoneo de Ungría
1521 Lepolemo
1522 Clarimundo
1522 Clarián de Landanis II
1524 Clarián de Landanis III Reymundo de Grecia
1526 Lisuarte de Grecia II Polindo
1528 Lidaman de Ganayle
1530 Amadís de Grecia Florindo
1531 Felix Magno
1532 Florambel de Lucea Florisel de Niquea
1533 Platir
1534 Lidamor de Escocia
1534 Lucidante de Tracia
1535 Rogel de Grecia
1540 Valerian de Ungría
1542 Philesbian de Candaria
1544(?) Palmerín de Inglaterra
1545 Cirongilio de Tracia
1545 Crisalián de España Florando de Inglaterra
1546 Silves de la Selva
1547 Belianis de Grecia II
1550 Floramante de Colonia
1551 Rogel de Grecia II
1556 Felixmarte de Hircania
1562 Espejo de Príncipes
1563 Leandro el Bel
1564 Olivante de Laura
1576 Febo el Troyano
1579 Belianis de Grecia III
1581 Espejo de Príncipes II
1587 Duardo Segundo
1589 Espejo de Príncipes III
1602 Clarisol de Bretanha Policisne de Boecia

6. There is a genealogical table of the Amadis heroes in Pascual de Gayangos, Libros de caballerías, in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. 40, p. xxxviii.

7. A genealogy of the Palmerín cycle is given in Gayangos, op. cit., p. xlv.

8. See note in Diego Clemencín (ed.), El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha ... (Madrid, 1833; 8 vols.), vol. 2, p. 457.

9. Thomas, op. cit., p. 149.

10. Charles V had a copy of El caballero determinado in its original French with illuminations, and also the Castilian version of Hernando de Acuña, likewise with illuminations, when he retired to the monastery at Yuste. Cf. William Sterling, The cloister life of the Emperor Charles V (Boston, 1853), pp. 316-317. It appears likely that his son Philip II reverently preserved these relics of his father, judging by the "Libros de diversas facultades de la testamentería de Felipe II, 1600" in Documentos para la historia de España (Madrid, 1877), vol. 68, pp. 486-488, where two copies are listed, one evaluated at 8 reales, and the other at 16.

11. Salvador de Madariaga, Guía del lector del Quijote (Madrid, 1926), p. 5.

12. Thomas, op. cit., p. 80.

13. Archer Huntington, Catalogue of the library of Ferdinand Columbus (New York, 1905). John B. Thacher, Christopher Columbus, his life, his work, his remains (New York, London, 1903-1904; 3 vols.), vol. 3, pp. 422-453.

14. Juan de Valdés, Diálogo de la lengua (Madrid, 1928, Clásicos castellanos ed.), pp. 168, 172.

15. E. Allison Peers, Studies in the Spanish mystics (London, 1927; 2 vols.), vol. 1, p. 8.

16. Ricardo Rojas, Historia de la literatura argentina (Buenos Aires, ed. 2, 1924-1925; 8 vols.), vol. 1, p. 84.

17. "La vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jesús ... por ella misma," in Biblioteca de autores españoles (Madrid, 1861), vol. 53, p. 24.

18. Gaston Etchegoyen, L'amour divin. Essai sur les sources de Sainte Thérèse (Paris, 1923), pp. 44-46.

19. Francisco de Ribera, Vida de Santa Teresa (Barcelona, 1908), p. 99.

20. The text of this letter is reproduced in Rubén Vargas Ugarte, Manuscritos peruanos en las bibliotecas del estranjero (Lima, 1935; 3 vols.), vol. 1, p. 245.

21. Thomas, op. cit., pp. 152-153.

22. La Florida del Inca (Madrid, 1723), libro II, parte I, p. cxxvii.