... on the games that two kings, hoping to secure autocratic rule but avoid open despotism, play with sovereign mercy.2 The princes are Alfonso I of Aragon (1385 – 1458), known equally for his conquest of Naples and his patronage of the arts, and François I (1494 – 1547), under whom the Valois court flourished...

... with the Marquis, then with Carlos, an.! finally with Alfonso, he is taunted by reference to his birth ; and both of the Vargas sons call him iizdiano to his face in order to insult him. 126 likus’ ‘Don Al7,aro’ and J’crdi’s ‘La forza del destino’ mistaken. Italian dictionaries do not admit...

.... Nuovi Canti Carnascialeschi del Rinascimen- to. Societa Tipografica Modenese Editrice in Modena, 1940. Pp. 173. SPANISH* Hilton, Ronald. Campoamor, Spain, and the World. University of Toronto Press, 1940. Pp. 152. $1.50. Martinez, Alfonso de Toledo...

... — marked by exceptional precision and promptness. When a thun- derclap announces Alfonso’s ghost at the end of The Castle of Otranto, one is tempted to view the event eschatologically. Such, after all, is the conclusion of two onlookers, Frederic and Jerome, who “thought the last day was at hand...

... ruled Muslim Spain. The poem’s reference to them—to which I will return below—is likely to have been as personal and legible to the Anglo-Norman court as its references to London and Poitiers. Eleanor’s grandfather had joined Alfonso I of Aragon in a crusade against the Almoravides in 1119...

... and cannot easily be incorporated into an expansive myth of Christendom.27 National his- and is discussed also in Alfonso X’s Primera crónica general (1270), edited and published by Florián de Ocampo as Las quatro partes enteras de la crónica de España que mandó componer el serenissimo rey don...

... and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1959. Pp. x + 162. $1.25. -~ (translator). Little Sermons on Sin : The Archpriest of Talavera, by Alfonso Martinez de Toledo. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of Cali- fornia Press, 1959. Pp. viii + 200. $1.50. Temmer, Mark J...

... BYRON’S DON JUAN The theme of masquerade is delightfully elaborated in the narrative. Juan journeys from the embarrassed nakedness of his youth (when he flees Don Alfonso) to a costume-ball orgy on an island (111.77), an accident of transvestitism (V.73), an escape to a battlefield...

... que son hkros voulait faire inscrire en lettres d’or sur la porte de la niaison que lui avait donnke Don Alfonso de Leyva; distique dont 1%. Hutton retrace savamment la ghealogie. De mPme les sept pages 491 492 Reviews consacrkes B...

.... Mdxico, 1950. Privately printed for the author. Pp. 181. $2.00. Fichter, William L. (editor). Publicaciones periodisticas de Don Ram6n del Valle-Inch anteriores a 1895. Edicibn, estudio preliminar y notas. Presen- taci6n de Alfonso Reyes. El Colegio de MCxico, 1952. Pp. 222...

... as Woman. Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1978. xii + 324 pp. $15.00. Keller, John Esten. Pious Brief Narrative in Medieval Castilian and Galician Verse: From Berceo to Alfonso X. Lexington: LJniversity Press of Kentucky, Studies in Komance Languages, 21, 1978...

... Juana and Alfonso V of Portugal. It will be noted that the Girones are not singled out for special vituperation. With regard to Tirso’s puns based on the word girdn, Doiia Blanca states: “cuando jug6 del vocablo con ese apellido, jam& lo hizo en sentido encomiistico.”20 This is refuted...

... contra su gusto Tirso has taken a few liberties with history, such as having the privado accompanied by his sister in Naples, when in fact Osuna’s sisters died in childhood.16 He errs, moreover, when he states that Fadrique was the son of King Alfonso of Naples and came to the throne after...

.... Antonio Fogazmro e la crisi dell‘ltalia moderna: Saggio d’interpretazione letterario-morale. Ithaca: Linguistica, 1967. 109 pp. Keller, John Esten. Alfonso X, El Sabio. New York: Twayne, TWAS 12, 1967. 198 pp. $3.95. Xiatthews, J. H. Andre‘ Breton. New York and London...

...: University of Washington Press, 1966. xi + 264 pp. $6.95; 52s. Burgio, Alfonso. Storia della letteratura. Two volumes. Milano: Casa Edi trice Dr. Francesco Vallardi, 1963. Vol. I: xx + 465 pp.; Vol. 11: xviii, 467-883 pp. L. 15000; $24.30. Distributed in U.S.A. by Chilton Books, East Washington...

... that not only by arms, but also by booklearning, is a commonwealth governed. Keenly interested in statecraft, Saavedra recalls that Alfonso of Naples and Aragon, being asked whethter arms or letters were more important, replied, “En 10s libros 6 aprendido las armas, y 10s derechos de las armas.”s...

... translated into English as The Prettiest Love Letters in the World (the phrase is Byron’s).l7 As if in some absurdly prescient bid for future celebrity, Bembo between 1503 and 1505 formed an intense bond with none other than Lucrezia Borgia. Married to Alfonso d’Este in 1501, she was commonly...

... by the ephemeral simulacra of oth- erness. This narcissistic circularity of movement between transitory images of the other and self typifies the poetics of the love ayre.2’ Consider, for example, song io of Alfonso Ferrabosco’s Ayrvs 2‘$ Publius Naso Chiditis, Mdnrnorfhm, trans. Frank...

... and pescuezo may be involved. 7aFor quotations from Alfonso el Sabio, El Espdculo, and from Bul. del Orden de Alca’ntara, see Diccionario Histdrico. I, 651a. See also Documentos Zingiiisticos de espaia, ed. R. Menendez Pidal (Madrid, 1919), No. 208 (Osmo, A.D. 1212), for illustration of apedgar...

... to “the War of Devolution, the depositions of Alfonso VI of Portugal . . . by Spain’s recognition of Portugal’s independence, the French capture of the Spanish Netherlands, the abdication of John Casmir of Poland . . . the Turkish conquest of Crete . . . the movement of the Dutch fleet into the Thames...