HERNANDO DE

PULGAR (1436-c. 1492)  , Spanish prose-writer, was born at Pulgar (near Toledo) in 1436 and was educated at the court of John II . Henry IV. made him one of his secretaries, and under Isabella he became councillor of state, was charged with a mission to France, and in 1482 was appointed historiographer-royal . He is said to have died in 1492 . His Cr6nica de los Reyes Cal6licos, wrongly ascribed in the first edition (1565) to Antonio de Lebrija, is often inaccurate and always obsequious; but the record is not without value as regards events within the author's personal experience . Pulgar's Claros Varones de Castilla (1486), an account of celebrities at the court of Henry IV., is interesting in matter and style . He compiled a commentary (1485?) on the Coplas de Mingo Revulgo . His Letters, written to various persons of eminence, were first published in 1485-1486 .