Chapter V

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