CHAPTER VI

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HISTORICAL LITERATURE.

Chronicling Period gone by 553 Antonio de Guevara 553 Florian de Ocampo 554 Pedro Mexia 555 Accounts of the New World 556 Fernando Cortés 556 Francisco Lopez de Gomara 557 Bernal Diaz 558 Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo 559 His Historia de las Indias 560 His Quinquagenas 562 Bartolomé de las Casas 563 His Brevísima Relacion 565 His Historia de las Indias 566 Vaca, Xerez, and Çarate 567 Approach to Regular History 568

HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE.

FIRST PERIOD.

THE LITERATURE THAT EXISTED IN SPAIN BETWEEN THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE PRESENT WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND THE EARLY PART OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES THE FIFTH; OR FROM THE END OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH.

HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE.

FIRST PERIOD.

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