101

[The luxurious four-volume edition of London, 1738, whose text was edited by Pedro Pineda, and for which Mayáns was commissioned to write the first life of Cervantes. This edition was not annotated, but it was the first in which Cervantes was treated as an exceptionally worthy author. Mayáns Vida, included in Charles Jarvis's translation of Don Quijote, has been edited by Antonio Mestre (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1972).] (N. from the E.)

102

[The English antiquarian and editor Thomas Hearne.] (N. from the E.)

103

[Francisco Rico, who praises Bowle's annotations profusely, points to this as Bowle's only «enmienda memorable» (ccxviii).] (N. from the E.)

104

V. T. 2, 281: «Fuera desto», &c. (N. from the A.)

105

Original text: replció erroneously for replicó. (N. from the A.)

106

Horace^106.1. (N. from the A.)


	^106.1	[Ars Poetica, 126–27. «Let it be maintained to the end just as it emerged at the beginning and let it be consistent with itself». From the translation by Leon Golden, in Horace for Students of Literature: The Ars Poetica and Its Tradition, as reproduced on http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/DRAMA/ ArsPoetica.html, consulted Jan. 1, 2001.] (N. from the E.)

107

[Ars Poetica, 351–53. «But where many qualities sparkle in a poem, I will not find fault with a few blemishes, which either carelessness introduced or human nature, too little vigilant, did not avoid». (N. from the E.)]

108

[Bowle was the first to detect the two Cuesta editions of 1605, but he had their order reversed. It is of course the second edition of 1605 that has the privilegios of Aragón and Portugal.] (N. from the E.)

109

[In the seventeenth century Spain followed the Gregorian calendar, which England did not adopt until the eighteenth century. Thus the calendars of England and Spain were separated by ten days. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on different days, even though in both countries the day was April 23.] (N. from the E.)

110

I, 30. The first Spanish, second Italian, third French. (N. from the A.)