CHAPTER V

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DIDACTIC POETRY AND PROSE.--CASTILIAN LANGUAGE.

Early Didactic Poetry 529 Luis de Escobar 529 Alonso de Corelas 531 Gonzalez de la Torre 531 Didactic Prose 531 Francisco de Villalobos 532 Fernan Perez de Oliva 534 Juan de Sedeño 536 Cervantes de Salazar 536 Luis Mexia 537 Pedro Navarra 537 Pedro Mexia 537 Gerónimo de Urrea 538 Palacios Rubios 539 Alexio de Vanegas 539 Juan de Avila 540 Antonio de Guevara 540 His Relox de Príncipes 541 His Década de los Césares 543 His Epístolas 543 His other Works 545 The Diálogo de las Lenguas 546 Its Probable Author 546 State of the Castilian Language from the Time of Juan de Mena 547 Contributions to it 548 Dictionaries and Grammars 549 The Language formed 550 The Dialects 550 The Pure Castilian 551

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