Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I received none of my father; but rather for my sins and ill deserts did he give me his curse, and that many times when sane and sound as likewise when he died. Eke has my mother, who yet liveth, given it me full oft; she giveth it me now, and methinketh she will give it me at her death.' NOTES ON DON JUAN MANUEL (1) No good reward. I have at times put in the dialogue form what is not so in the original. (2) Were set in order. This is probably a story of Eastern origin. (3) Fernan Gonzalez. A famous count of the tenth century, owing to whom Castile first rose to importance. He is a favourite hereof Castilian romance. (4) To vanquish Death. There is a strong Eastern flavour in this story ; it is first found in the Discifilina Clericalis, the first known collection of stories made in Spain, written by a certain Pedro Alfonso, a converted Jew of the eleventh century. (5) Don Juan. King Sancho's brother. (6) Dona Maria. Dona Maria de Molina. FRANCISCO IMPERIAL (Early Fifteenth Century) Francisco Imperial was the son of a Genoese jeweller who settled in Seville. That he was in his day a poet of repute is shown by the fact that thirteen of his poems figure in the Cancionero of Baena, an important mediaeval anthology from the works of some sixty poets, which appeared about Imperial is chiefly remarkable in being, as it seems, the first Spanish imitator of Dante. He was the author of a| pleasing poem—the Dezir a las syete virtudes, in most of which he closely follows the great Florentine. In the lyric, of which a version is given below, the scene lies on the banks of the Guadalquivir in Seville, and one is reminded of the famous meeting on the Lungarno between Dante and Beatrice. Those familiar with Seville will remember the bridge spanning the great ri...