«Del autor del famoso libro poético de Amadís no se sabe hasta hoy el nombre, honra de la nación y lengua española, que en ninguna lengua hay tal poesía ni tan loable» (Luis Zapata de Chaves, Miscelánea, ed. Isidoro Montiel [Madrid: Castilla, 1949], II, 162 [Chapter 164]). Juan de Valdés talks of «el que compuso a Amadís de Gaula», not of Montalvo (Diálogo de la lengua, p. 68).
Edwin Place, «¿Montalvo autor o refundidor del Amadís IV y V?» cited above.
See the articles of Gili Gaya and Amezcua, cited above, in note 78 to Chapter II.
See the «Carta del D. Diego [Hurtado] de Mendoza en nombre de Marco Aurelio [note again the allusion to Guevara together with the attack on Silva], a Feliciano de Silva», in Sales españolas, pp. 85-86. One conclusion which can be drawn from this parody is that Hurtado was familiar with Silva's works, as also was Francisco López de Úbeda, author of the Pícara Justina (see BAE, 33, p. 92).
Narciso Alonso Cortés, «Feliciano de Silva», BRAE, 20 (1933), 382-404, at pp. 383-84. «La obra es de cavallero, y tan insigne como Feliciano de Silva», says Benito Boyer in his preface to the 1564 edition of Amadís de Grecia.
The colophon of the first (1512) edition of Primaleón states that it and its predecessor, Palmerín de Olivia, were «trasladado[s]... en la muy noble ciudad de Ciudadrodrigo por Francisco Vasquez vezino dela dicha ciudad» (quoted by Giuseppe di Stefano in his edition of Palmerín, p. 783). Also, the name «Augustobrica» used in the verses at the end of Primaleón (Di Stefano, p. 766) is most easily explained as the Latin name of Ciudad Rodrigo.
Rose, pp. 29-35, 39. See also Eugenio Asensio, «Alonso Núñez de Reinoso, "gitano peregrino", y su égloga Baltea», in Studia Hispanica in honorem R. Lapesa, I (Madrid: Gredos, 1972), pp. 119-36.
Lisuarte de Grecia is dedicated to Deza; see below, «Dedications of the Spanish Romances of Chivalry».
This information is taken from his will; see the article of Alonso Cortés cited in note 214. Cravens, to whom the reader who wishes more extensive biographical information on Silva is referred, gives (pp. 23-24) plausible reasons to support the hypothesis that Silva served under Carlos in the Guerra de las Comunidades.
Miscelánea, II, 158 (Chapter 161).