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La Costa, Gen., killed at Saragossa, 59.

La Cruz, Ramon de, dramatist, 170.

Lagartijo the matador, 214, 240, 241; ii. 94.

La Harpe, Jean François, on the Apollo Belvidere, ii. 272.

Lainus Calvo, judge of Castile, 103.

La Mancha, ii. 56, ii. 260.

Language, Italian, in opera, 171; Spanish, allied to the Italian, 159; pronunciation of, 159. See also Dialect.

Lauria, Roger de, 50.

Leon, Louis de, 54; born in Granada, ii. 243.

Leonardo, Lupercio, sonnet to, 73.

Leopardi Giacomo, Count, 283; ii. 9; in Seville cathedral, ii. 111; on Spanish pride, 284.

Lepanto, relics of battle of, 25, 174, 176.

Lerida, 48.

Light-fingered gentry, 98.

Literature, discouragements of, 282; dramatic, 283; national pride in, 287; present state of, 280; contests of genius at Cordova, ii. 94.

Logroño, Amadeus at, 85; Moorish ruins at, 91.

Loneliness of travel, ii. 47, ii. 67, ii. 105.

Lope de Vega's criticism of Gongorist poets, ii. 93; houses at Madrid, 156; popularity, ii. 9.

Lorraine. See Claude Lorraine.

Louis I., tomb of, 266.

Love, travelling for, 13.

Loyola, Ignatius, at Montserrat, 46.

Luna, Don Alvaro de, tomb of, ii. 29.

Lunatic asylum, Toledo, ii. 51.