Chapter V: Part I: I. Gaspar Melchor De Jovellanos

Memoir of 3

Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and
Studies of Men 18

To Galatea’s Bird 30

To Enarda.--I. 32

To Enarda.--II. 33

II. TOMAS DE IRIARTE.

Memoir of 37

Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on his
Travelling to various Foreign Courts 46

The Bear, the Monkey and the Hog 53

The Ass and the Flute 55

The Two Rabbits 56

The Lamb and his Two Advisers 58

The Flint and the Steel 59

III. JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES.

Memoir of 61

Juvenilities 77

The Timid Lover 79

My Village Life 81

Remembrances of Youth 84

Of the Sciences 87

The Disdainful Shepherdess 90

IV. LEANDRO FERNANDEZ MORATIN.

Memoir of 95

Dedication of the Mogigata to the Prince of the Peace 106

Epistle to Don Gaspar de Jovellanos, sent from Rome 108

V. JUAN BAUTISTA DE ARRIAZA.

Memoir of 113

Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar 123

The Parting 132

VI. MANUEL JOSÈ QUINTANA.

Memoir of 141

To the Spanish Expedition for the Promotion of
Vaccination in America, under Don Francisco
Balmis 152

On the Battle of Trafalgar 158