RODRIGO COTA DE MAGUAQUE (d. c. 1498)  ,

Spanish poet, who flourished towards the end of the 15th century, was born at Toledo . Little is known of him save that he was of Jewish origin . The Coplas de Mingo Revulgo, the Coplas del Provincial, and the first act of the Celestina have been ascribed to him on insufficient grounds . He is undoubtedly the author of the Dialogo entre el amor y un viejo, a striking dramatic poem first printed in the Cancionero general of 1511, and of a burlesque epithalamium written in 1472 or later . He abjured Judaism about the year 1497, and is believed to have died shortly afterwards . See " Epithalame burlesque," edited by R . Foulche-Delbosc, in the Revue hispanique (Paris, 1894), i . 69-72; A . Bonilla y San Martin, Anales de la literatura espan`ola (Madrid, 1904), pp . 164-167 . COTE-D'OR, a department of eastern France, formed of the northern region of the old province of Burgundy, bounded N. by the department of Aube, N.E. by Haute-Marne, E. by Haute-Saline and Jura, S. by Saone-et-Loire, and W. by Nievre and Yonne . Area, 3392 sq. m .

Pop . (1906) 357,959 . A

chain of hills named the Plateau de Langres runs from north-east to south-west through the centre of the department, separating the basin of the Seine from that of the Saone, and forming a connecting-link between the Cevennes and the Vosges mountains . Extending southward from Dijon is a portion of this range which, on account of the excellence of its vineyards, bears the name of Cote-d'Or, whence that of the department . The north-west portion of the department is occupied by the calcareous and densely-wooded district of Chatillonais, the south-west by spurs of the granitic chain of Morvan, while a wide plain traversed by the Saone extends over the eastern region . The Chatillonais is watered by the Seine, which there takes its rise, and by the Ource, both fed largely by the douix or abundant springs characteristic of Burgundy . The Armancon and other affluents of the Yonne, and the Arroux, a tributary of the Loire, water the south-west . The climate of Cote-d'Or is temperate and healthy; the rainfall is abundant west of the central range, but moderate, and, in places, scarce, in the eastern plain . Husbandry flourishes, the wealth of the department lying chiefly in its vineyards, especially those of the Cote-d'Or, which comprise the three main groups of Beaune, Nuits and Dijon, the latter the least renowned of the three . The chief cereals are wheat, oats and barley; potatoes, hops, beetroot, rape-seed, colza and a small quantity of tobacco are also produced . Sheep and cattle-raising is carried on chiefly in the western districts . The department has anthracite mines and produces freestone, lime and cement .

The manufactures include

iron, steel, nails, tools, machinery and other iron goods, paper, earthenware, tiles and bricks, morocco leather goods, biscuits and mustard, and there are flour-mills, distilleries, oil and vinegar works and breweries . The imports of the department are inconsiderable, coal alone being of any importance; there is an active export trade in wine, brandy, cereals and live stock and in manufactured goods . The Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee railway serves the department, its main line passing through Dijon . The canal of Burgundy, connecting the Saone with the Yonne, has a length of 94 M. in the department, while that from the Marne to the Saone has a length of 24 M . Cote-d'Or is divided into the arrondissements of Dijon, Beaune, Chatillon and Semur, with 36 cantons and 717 communes . It forms the diocese of the bishop of Dijon, and part of the archiepiscopal province of Lyons and of the 8th military region . Dijon is the seat of the educational circumscription (academie) and court of appeal to which the department is assigned . The more noteworthy places are Dijon, the capital, Beaune, Chatillon, Semur, Auxonne, Flavigny and Citeaux, all separately treated . St Jean de Losne, at the extremity of the Burgundy canal, is famous for its brave and successful resistance in 1636 to an immense force of Imperialists . Chateauneuf has a chateau of tha 15th century, St Seine-l'Abbaye, a fine Gothic abbey church, and Saulieu, a Romanesque abbey church of the 11th century . The chateau of Bussy Rabutin (at Bussy-le-Grand), founded in the 12th century, has an interesting collection of pictures made by Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, who also rebuilt the chateau . Montbard, the birthplace of the naturalist Buffon, has a keep of the 14th century and other remains of a castle of the dukes of Burgundy .

The remarkable

Renaissance chapel (1536) of Pagnyle-Chateau, belonging to the chateau destroyed in 1768, contains the tomb of Jean de Vienne (d . 1455) and that of Jean de Longwy (d . 1460) and Jeanne de Vienne (d . 1472), with alabaster effigies . At Fontenay, near Marmagne, a paper-works occupies the buildings of a well-preserved Cistercian abbey of the 12th century . At Vertault there are remains of a theatre and other buildings marking the site of the Gallo-Roman town of Vertilium .