V.

Vaca, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de, f. 1540. His Naufragios, etc., I. 567, _n._

Vaca, Josefa, actress, II. 434.

Val, Pablo de, Romancero, III. 394.

Valdepeñas, Rodrigo de, on Manrique, I. 409.

Valderrabano, Manuel Perez, f. 1785, III. 290, _n._

Valderramen, pseudonyme. See _Varflora_.

Valdés, Juan de, 1540. Diálogo de las Lenguas, I. 546, 547, _n._

Valdes, Juan de, collection of plays, III. 426.

Valdivielso, Joseph de, f. 1633. Dramas, II. 316-318. Poems, 150, _n._ Nacimiento, 218, _n._ On the Bachiller de la Torre, 266. His San Josef, and Sagrario, 472. His ballads, III. 32.

Valencia, Diego de, I. 429.

Valencia, drama in, early, II. 167, _n._ Beginning of 16th century, 8, _n._; end of it, 28. Time of Lope, 128, 167, 173. Theatre closed, III. 341, _n._

Valencian dialect, I. 331. Decay of, 337, 550.

Valencian writers, books on, I. 342.

Valera, Diego de, f. 1481, I. 184, _n._

Valerio de las Historias of Almela, I. 418.

Valiente Céspedes of Lope de Vega, II. 208.

Valladares de Sotomayor, Antonio, f. 18th century. Dramatist, III. 331.

Valladares de Valdelomar, f. 1617. Caballero Venturoso, III. 88.

Valle, Juan del, pseudonyme of Cadahalso, III. 320, _n._

Valles, Pedro, of Aragon, f. 1549. Proverbs, III. 171.

Valles, Pedro, of Córdova, f. 1580. Discourse on Death, I. 536, _n._

Vanda, La, y la Flor, of Calderon, II. 385, 395.

Vandali, etc., invade Spain, III. 369.

Vanegas, Alexis de, f. 1540. His Agonia, and Diferencias de Libros, I. 539, 540.

Vaqueira, what, I. 371.

Varflora, Firmin Arana de, II. 534, _n._

Vargas, Garci Perez de, ballad on, I. 127.

Vargas, Rodriguez de, f. 1621, II. 474.

Vargas, Tamayo de, edition of Garcilasso de la Vega, I. 494 and _n._ Defence of Mariana, III. 150, _n._

Vargas y Ponce, his Abusos de la Lengua Castellana, III. 218, _n._

Varias Hermosas Flores del Parnaso, II. 549, _n._

Varias Noticias of Figueroa, III. 183.

Varios Efetos de Amor of Alcalá y Herrera, III. 109.

Varios Prodigios de Amor of Robles, III. 109.

Vasconcellos, Ferreira de, f. 1613. His Eufrósina, I. 270, _n._

Vasconcellos, Juan Mendez de, his Liga Desecha, f. 1612, II. 499, 500, _n._

Vasquez, Joseph, pseudonyme of Cadahalso, III. 277, _n._

Vaz de Velasco, Alfonso, f. 1602. His Zeloso, I. 271.

Vazquez, in the Cancionero, I. 442, _n._

Vega, Alonso de la, d. 1566. Dramatist, II. 25.

Vega, Ant. Lopez de, f. 1641. Poems, II. 529. Didactic prose, III. 186.

Vega, Bernardo de la, f. 1591. Pastores de Iberia, III. 48.

Vega, Gabriel Lasso de la. See _Lasso_.

Vega, Garcilasso de la. See _Garcilasso_.

Vega Garcilasso de la, (El Inca,) d. 1616. His Comentarios, etc., III. 155-158.

Vega, Joseph de la, f. 1693. Didactic prose, III. 195, _n._

Vega, Lope Felix de, d. 1635. Birth, II. 120, 121, _n._ Education, 121-123. A soldier in Terceira, 123. Secretary to the Bishop of Avila, 123. Earliest works, 123. His Dorotea, 124. Secretary to Antonio, Duke of Alva, 124. Writes the Arcadia, 125. Marries Isabela de Urbina, 127. Is exiled for a duel, 127. Goes to Valencia, 28, 128. His wife dies, 128. He serves in the Armada, 129. Returns to Madrid, 130. Secretary of the Marquis of Malpica, and of the Marquis of Sarria, 131. Marries Doña Juana de Guardio, 131. She dies, 132. His son Carlos dies, 131. Marcela, his daughter, 132. Death of his son Lope, 133. He becomes a priest, 133; and a Familiar of the Inquisition, 134. His San Isidro, 135, 149. His Hermosura de Angélica, 137. His Dragontea, 140. His Peregrino en su Patria, 142. His Jerusalen Conquistada, 143, 485. His versification, 144. His Pastores de Belen, 146. Religious poems, 148. His appearance at the festival for the beatification of Isidro, 149-152; and at the festival for his canonization, 152-155. His Tomé Burguillos, 154, 491. He is a good reader, 150, 152. His Filomena, Tapada, Andromeda, and Diana, 155. Attacks Cultismo, 156 and _n._, 531, 532. His Circe, Mañana de San Juan, and Rosa Blanca, 156. A presiding officer at an Auto da Fé, 157. His Triunfos Divinos, 158. Corona Trágica, 159. His Laurel de Apolo, 159. Prints his Dorotea, 160. His last works, illness, and death, 161, 162. His funeral, 162, 163. His miscellaneous works, II. 164-166. His dramas, 166-250. First attempts for the stage, 166, 168. His New Art of making Plays, 166. His exile at Valencia, 167. His Verdadero Amante and Pastoral de Jacinto, 169. His Moralities, 170-173. Acts the character of a buffoon at Valencia, 173. Appears as a dramatist at Madrid, and succeeds, 174. Prints only a part of his plays, 175 and _n._, 176. Their great number, 175, 176. His theory, and purpose in writing for the stage, 177. Variety of his dramas, 178, 239. His plays acted very often, 180, _n._ His Comedias de Capa y Espada, 179-191. His Comedias Heróycas, 192-209. Their want of historical truth, 208, 222, _n._ Comedias on common life, 210-217. Comedias on religious subjects, 217-222. Comedias de Santos, 222-226. Autos Sacramentales, 226-234. Entremeses, 234-236. Eclogues, 236-238, III. 13. Characteristic principle of his dramas, the interest of the story, II. 239, 243 and _n._ Characters, 240. Long speeches, 240. Incongruity and irregularity of his dramas, 241. History and geography sacrificed, 242. Immorality, 242, 243. Underplot, 243. Gracioso, 244. Versification, 245, 246. Ballads introduced, 247, 248. Constructed his drama on the old traditions of the theatre, 249. His great success, 249-251. Plays falsely attributed to him, 251 and _n._ His earnings as an author, 251. Price of his plays, 251, _n._ He was poor, 251. Vast amount of his works, 252. Nature of his genius, 253, 254. On Pulgar, I. 201, _n._ On the Italian school, 507. On the Mendozas, 510, _n._ On Lope de Rueda, II. 20, _n._ Relations with Cervantes, 82-84. Friend of Guillen de Castro, 284. First hint of a Don Juan, 309. His dramatic school opposed by scholars and churchmen, 327-330. Triumphs over them, 331. He praises Calderon, 335. His Fuerza Lastimosa, I. 127, _n._ His Esclavos en Argel, II. 91, _n._ His Selva sin Amor, 424. Parody of his Cavallero de Olmedo, 487. His epics, 500. Connection with Marini, 520, _n._ Lyrical poetry, 545. Epigrams, III. 15. Didactic poetry, 22. Ballads, 32, 36. Tales, 67, 103. Letters, 136. Dramas in Comedias Escogidas, 425. See _Bertuch_; _Dohrn_; _Fauriel_; _Holcroft_; _Holland, Lord_; _Montalvan_; _Navarrete_; _Southey_; _Zedlitz_.

Vegas, Damian de, f. 1590. Libro de Poesía, II. 277, 278 and _n._, 508.

Veinte Triunfos of Frexenal, II. 521, _n._

Velasco, Antonio de, I. 435.

Velazquez, Baltasar Mateo, f. 1621. Filósofo del Aldea, III. 191.

Velazquez, Luis Joseph, d. 1772. His edition of the Bachiller de la Torre, II. 264. His Orígenes de la Poesía, III. 251.

Venegas, Alexis. See _Vanegas_.

Venegas, Pedro de Saavedra, poet, II. 533.

Venganza Venturosa, La, of Lope de Vega, II. 121, _n._

Ventura de Vergara. See _Vergara_.

Veraguas, Duke of, II. 340, 343 and _n._

Vera Tassis, Life of Calderon, II. 334. Edition of his Comedias, 343; of Aug. de Salazar, 530, _n._

Vera y Figueroa, or Zuñiga, Conde de la Roca, Antonio de, d. 1658. On Pedro el Cruel, I. 183. His Fernando, an epic, II. 500, 502, _n._ His Embaxador, III. 184. His part in Cibdareal, 397.

Vera y Villaroel, Juan de, dramatist, II. 429.

Vera y Zuñiga. See _Vera y Figueroa_.

Verdad en el Potro of Santos, III. 115.

Verdad Sospechosa of Alarcon, II. 321.

Verdadero Amante, El, of Lope de Vega, II. 169.

Verdadero Suceso de la Batalla de Roncesvalles, by Garrido de Villena, II. 477.

Vergara Salcedo, Sebastian Ventura de, poet, f. 1660, II. 530.

Vergonzoso en Palacio of Tirso de Molina, II. 313.

Verses without the final syllable, III. 67, _n._

Vexamen de Ingenios, by Cancer, III. 189, _n._

Vezilla Castellanos, Pedro de la, f. 1586. His Leon de España, II. 494.

Viage al Parnaso of Cervantes, II. 88, III. 6, 8, _n._

Viage del Mundo of Cevallos, III. 183, _n._

Viage Entretenido of Roxas, III. 181.

Viana, Carlos de, I. 332, _n._, 350. His Crónica, III. 168, _n._

Viana, Pedro Sanchez de, his Ovid’s Metamorphoses, II. 497, _n._

Viardot, Louis, Life of Cervantes, and translation of his Don Quixote, II. 53, _n._, III. 419. Of his Novelas, II. 88, _n._

Vicente, Gil, f. 1536. Dramas in Spanish, I. 283-292. Editions of his Works, 284, _n._ His Cassandra, 285. His Viudo, 289. Other plays by him, 290-292. Three Autos, 291, _n._ His merits, 292. His Amadis, II. 4 and _n._ His Parvos, 19, _n._

Victor, shout in the theatre, II. 440.

Vidas de Españoles Célebres of Quintana, III. 309.

Vidriana of Huete, II. 8.

Viejo, El, y la Nina, of Moratin, III. 335.

Vieyra, Antonio de, his Lágrimas de Heráclito, III. 185, _n._

Vilarasa, Luis de, Troubadour, I. 330.

Villagra, Gaspar de, f. 1610, II. 469.

Villahermosa, Duke of, patron of Argensola, II. 537.

Villaizan, Gerónimo. See _Villayzan_.

Villaizan, Juan Nuñez de, chronicler, I. 175.

Villalobos, Francisco de, f. 1543. Works, I. 532-534. Translation, I. 294, II. 30.

Villalobos, Simon de, f. 1605. Pelear á la Gineta, III. 188.

Villalon, Bachiller, c. 1535. Drama by, II. 9, _n._

Villalon, Cristóval de, f. 1541. Submits a book to the Inquisition, I. 462, _n._

Villalpando, Jacinto de, f. 1655. Poem, II. 483. Tales, III. 109.

Villalta, Andrés de, Romancero, III. 392.

Villamediana, Count, d. 1621. Poet, II. 483, 527. Dramatic entertainment, 184, _n._ Effect on the language, III. 218.

Villancicos, dramatic, I. 278, _n._ Lyrical, 440.

Villanueva, Viage Literario, III. 153, _n._ On Forner, 294, _n._

Villaroya, Josef, on Jaume i., I. 317, _n._

Villasandino, Alfonso Alvarez de, f. 1440, I. 391-393, 429.

Villaviciosa, Joseph de, d. 1658. His Mosquea, II. 489.

Villaviciosa, Seb. de, dramas, II. 419, 420, _n._

Villayzan, Gerónimo de, II. 451, _n._, 323.

Villegas, Alonso de, f. 1554. His Selvagia, I. 269, 270, _n._

Villegas, Antonio de, f. 1550. His Inventario, I. 503, II. 481, III. 93.

Villegas, Estevan Manuel de, Lyrical poetry, d. 1669, II. 541-544. Satires, III. 7. Elegies, 9. Eclogues, 13. Epigrams, 14. Opposes the old drama, II. 328.

Villegas, Francisco de, dramatist, II. 427, III. 425.

Villegas, Gerónimo de, translations from Juvenal, I. 410, _n._

Villegas, Pero Fernandez de, f. 1515. Translation of Divina Commedia, I. 409, _n._ Aversion del Mundo, and Complaint of Faith, 410, _n._ Terza rima, 486, _n._

Villena, Alonso Garrido de, f. 1577, II. 477.

Villena, Enrique, Marques de, d. 1434. Life and works of, I. 357-364. Drama, 259. Arte de Trobar, 328, _n._ Translations, 352. Thought to have written the Querellas, 44, _n._

Villena, Marquis of, f. 1710. Plan for the Spanish Academy, III. 216.

Viñoles, Narcis, f. 1510. His Suma de todas las Crónicas, I. 216, _n._ Poetry, 340.

Vírgen Madre de Dios of Escobar, II. 474.

Virgil, ballad on, I. 127. Æneid and Georgics translated by Mesa, II. 496, 497, _n._ Georgics, by Luis de Leon, 48.

Virgin of the Reliquary of Calderon, II. 359.

Virgin, Holy. See _Madonna_.

Virginia of Montiano, III. 316.

Virues, Cristóval de, f. 1609. Dramas, II. 28. Lope de Vega on, 166, 167. His Monserrate, 470. Satires, III. 4, _n._ Didactic poetry, 19. Descriptive, 23, _n._

Visigoth dynasty in Spain, III. 370.

Vision Deleytable of La Torre, I. 417.

Visions of Quevedo, II. 270.

Vita Beata of Lucena, I. 415.

Vita Mathildis, I. 112, _n._

Viudo, O, of Vicente, I. 289.

Vivas, Fr. Duran, f. 1643, II. 474, 475, _n._

Vivero, Luis de, I. 435.

Vivo, El, y el Difunto, of Santos, III. 116.

Voltaire, his Mariamne, II. 372, _n._ On Diamante, 416. On the Araucana, 464. On Gil Blas, III. 70, 266.

Votos del Pavon, poem, 13th cent., I. 60.

Vuelta de Egypto of Lope de Vega, II. 234.

W.

Wace, Robert, I. 219.

Walker, Ferdinand, translation of Torquemada, III. 175, _n._

Ward, Edward, Don Quixote, in verse, III. 420.

White, Joseph Blanco, I. 72, _n._, II. 185, 327, _n._, III. 238, _n._, 240.

Wieland, C. M., on Villegas, II. 544, _n._ His Silvio de Rosalva, III. 420.

Wiffen, J. H., Life and Works of Garcilasso, I. 494.

Wilmot, translation of Don Quixote, III. 419.

Wolf, Ferdinand, I. 13, _n._, 79, _n._, 268, _n._, 274, _n._, III. 388, 396.

Wolf, F. A., publishes a tale of Cervantes, II. 88, _n._

Wolf, P. A., his Preciosa, II. 422.

Wright, Thos., Purgatory of St. Patrick, II. 353, _n._