Chapter XXXV

ROMANTIC FICTION, CONTINUED.--SERIOUS AND HISTORICAL ROMANCES.

Early Specimens 76
Juan de Flores 77
Nuñez de Reinoso 77
Luzindaro y Medusina 77
Hierónimo de Contreras 78
Relations with Italy and Algiers 79
Ginés Perez de Hita 79
His Guerras de Granada 79
Not imitated 84
La Cryselia de Lidaceli 86
Benito Remigio Noydens 86
Gonzalo de Céspedes 87
Cervantes, Lamarca 87
Dos Verdaderos Amigos 88
Valladares de Valdelomar 88
Grave Fictions discouraged 89
Cosmé de Texada 90
Christóval Lozano 91
Serious Fictions not successful 92